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Kiran Desai on how personal experience powered her Booker-shortlisted book, The Loneliness Of Sonia And Sunny
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At 700 pages, author Kiran Desai's new book, The Loneliness Of Sonia And Sunny, is the longest work among the six contenders for the Booker Prize.
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SINGAPORE – Indian-American author Kiran Desai is speaking to The Straits Times a day after New York’s fraught mayoral race, where 34-year-old Democrat Zohran Mamdani has just sealed a landslide victory over Mr Andrew Cuomo.
Her relief is palpable, tempered by a sense of the difficult work cut out for New York’s first Indian-American and Muslim mayor. “The other candidates were frankly, to my mind, aligned with very thuggish forces,” the 54-year-old starts off the interview by saying. “The city went through a very bad time during Covid-19 and never quite recovered.”
