The Last Song of Dusk.

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

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A tale of exquisite friendships, immense sacrifices and dangerous desires. Pirouetting between laughter and tears, Siddharth Dhanat Shanghvi’s technicolor debut tells the story of four extraordinary lives. Of Anuradha Gandharan, gifted with astonishing beauty and magical songs; of her husband, Vardhman, struggling with secret losses; of Nandini, a deviously alluring artist, with a penchant for panthers and walking on water; and of Shloka, the Gandharans’ delicate, disturbingly silent child.

As their fates unravel in an old villa in 1920s’ India, they learn to navigate the ever-changing landscape of love, and in doing so encounter a host of eccentrics: Mr. Banksias, the father of Bollywood cinema; Stella Dim, ‘England’s first ever Tit girl’; Libya Dess, rarely seen out of her porcelain bathtub; and Percival Worthington, the aristocratically limp son of the governor of Bombay, on whom Nandini rashly sets her sights. Told with tenderness and with dazzling wit, The Last Song of Dusk will haunt you long after you have turned the final page.

Language English
ISBN-10 0-14-303341-7
ISBN-13 978-0143033417
No of pages 298
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Book Publisher Penguin India
Published Date 10 Feb 2009

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