The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai is a sweeping, big-hearted tale from an award-winning author. Kiran joins us to talk about loneliness on a busy planet, art, storytelling, fame, exile, love, diaspora novels and more with host Miwa Messer.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                    

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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Burmese Days by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rosarita by Anita Desai
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai