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Kiran Desai is one of the most influential novelists writing in English today. Her 2006 novel The Inheritance of Loss stretched the formal capacities of the novel to capture postcolonial experience, and her new work, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (2025), has continued to reinvent the novel form in relation to the experience of global modernity. Homi Bhabha is the world’s leading thinker of postcolonial writing, whose work has provided us with the vocabulary with which we approach not only postcolonial life, but the contemporary condition more broadly. Their discussion will bring together fiction and theory, literature and philosophy, in order to ask how far our literary and critical institutions are able to offer counterimages to the forces producing the word picture today. Tickets are £10 standard / £5 student & U25. This event is part of the Utopia Now! Conference. Discounts are available if you book this evening event at the same time as a conference day ticket for the same day, so you can enjoy the daytime conference and evening programme for £10 standard / £5 student & U25 in total.

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