<p>Kiran Desai reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/an-unashamed-proposal-fiction-kiran-desai">An Unashamed Proposal</a>,” from the August 11, 2025, issue of the magazine. Desai is the author of the novels “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuySpndJ5PJGhz151iNtNu8GDCf6zDDe7KTcseK6CpQ5k2L3UReJs">Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard</a>” and “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuySpndJ5PAWYnQs3HVu3MNyfy4M5HWTM2zjPYZc17Uy4ujSbJptX">The Inheritance of Loss</a>,” which won the Booker Prize in 2006. A new novel, “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyH75FCycUQzRspM1WCCZakhuPksE6rE3iNCFwZpWfMkPYPB2dNP">The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny</a>,” from which this story was adapted, will be published this fall.</p>

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