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Brought to you by Penguin. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025** A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The...

Brought to you by Penguin. A TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING MASTERPIECE WITH A NEW PREFACE FROM THE AUTHOR High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is...

La soledad de Sonia y Sunny es la historia fascinante de dos jóvenes cuyos destinos se cruzan y separan a lo largo de continentes y años: una epopeya sobre el amor y la familia, la India y América, la tradición y la modernidad, que marca el regreso a la gran narrativa de Kiran Desai, ganadora del Premio Booker con El legado de la pérdida.

Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga...

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of Loss “A spectacular literary achievement. I wanted to pack...

Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud parents that their son was destined for greatness. Twenty years of failure later, that unfortunately does not appear to...