In the framework of the Dual Year Spain-India 2026, next Friday, February 13 at 7 pm, Casa Asia presents in the Espacio Fundación Telefónica (calle de Fuencarral, 3) a meeting with the Indian writer Kiran Desai, in which he will present his book La soledad de Sonia y Sunny. Free entry upon registration.
This meeting will be a unique opportunity to listen to the Indian writer in conversation with the award-winning writer and journalist Inés Martín Rodrigo. After almost two decades of literary silence, the author, one of the most recognized voices in contemporary Indian narrative and winner of the Booker Prize for El legado de la pérdida (The Legacy of Loss), returns with La soledad de Sonia y Sunny, a novel that has captivated international critics and is already among the most anticipated of the year.
The event, a result of the collaboration between Casa Asia, the publishing house Salamandra and Espacio Fundación Telefónica, will go beyond the simple presentation of the book: will be a reflection on the long creative process that has marked his return and how to narrate a life between cultures without falling into clichés. It will also address the major themes that permeate his work-love, family, migration and identity-in a constantly changing world.
The author, born in India and living between the United States and the United Kingdom, has built a work that explores the tensions between tradition and modernity, belonging and uprooting. In this new novel, these Indian roots are intertwined with global experience: Sonia and Sunny are two young people whose lives cross on a night train in India, but whose story unfolds between continents, revealing how identity and memory travel with us.
Kiran Desai (New Delhi, 1971) studied in India, England and the United States and currently resides in New York. Author of three highly successful novels published in Spanish by Salamandra: Alboroto en el guayabal (1999), El legado de la pérdida (2009), winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and La soledad de Sonia y Sunny (2026).
There will be public questioning, sale and signing of copies and streaming for those unable to attend in person.