THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF DEMON COPPERHEAD · Indian subcontinent edition
A song without any answer in it? That's the sound of waiting.
Livia Bohusz misses her brother, Cyrus. Unmoored by his death and by the suffocating silence of the family farm, eleven-year-old Livia has no choice but to survive. Her only refuge is music — the quiet rapture of piano practice, and the dizzying promise of another life that her talent seems to offer.
So when she arrives at college on a music scholarship, it feels as though a new life might finally begin. She throws herself into her passions in a world where she excels, even while she struggles to fit in among more polished classmates, and glimpses what life might hold beyond the farm and her parents. Then one spring, as the grass revives and the songbirds return, she notices a man with his shirtsleeves rolled to the elbow and asks herself who he is. It is a question she may come to wish she had never asked.
Both a coming-of-age story and a reckoning with midlife hopes and regrets, Partita is a novel about love, longing, class and ambition, as touching, complex and finely tuned as the music it celebrates.
About the author
Barbara Kingsolver is one of America's most celebrated novelists. Demon Copperhead won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Women's Prize for Fiction, making her the first author to win the Women's Prize twice, after The Lacuna. Her other books include The Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees, Prodigal Summer and Unsheltered. She lives on a farm in southern Appalachia.
Edition details
- Faber paperback, distributed in India by Hachette India
- For sale only in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka
- Published October 2026
