Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0-14-303341-7 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0143033417 |
No of pages | 298 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Penguin India |
Published Date | 10 Feb 2009 |
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi (born 1977) is an Indian author. His debut novel The Last Song of Dusk (2004) won the Betty Trask Award (UK),
one of UK's most prestigious prizes for debut novels, the Premio Grin Zane Cavour (Italy) for the Best Debut novel, and was nominated for the IMPAC Literary Prize (Ireland). It was translated into 16 languages, and became an international bestseller.
Shanghvi’s new novel, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay (2009), short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008, was a number one bestseller.
An exhibition of his photographic series, ‘The House Next Door’, opened in 2010 at Sweden's Gallery Contrast and showed at the Matthieu Foss Gallery,
Bombay, India Art Fair, and Videha Art Gallery, Delhi. A second show, ‘Postcards from The Forest’, exhibited at Sakshi Gallery, Bombay.
As honorary director of Uniparental, an arts foundation in Goa, he has curated the work of Roger Ballan, Dayanara Singh, as well as William Dalrymple's visual arts debut, The Writer's Eye, which enjoyed a six-city world tour.
Another show, under his direction, of Soon Territorial’s Bombay photographs, is ongoing at The Whitworth, UK; it bears an introduction by Salman Rushdie.
Shanghvi has been voted: India Today’s 50 Most Powerful Young Indians; Times of India’s 10 Global Indians; Hindustan Times: 10 Most Creative Men; Sunday Times, UK: The Next Big Thing; New Statesmen UK:
India’s Ten Bright Lights; ELLE 50 Most Stylish People; La Stampa, Italy: World’s 10 Best Dressed Men, Men's Health Style Icon 2011; GQ 50 Best Dressed List; ELLE Style Award 2015. Shanghvi lives in Bombay and Goa, from where he has contributed to TIME, New York Times, ELLE, VOGUE and other publications.
He lives in Bombay, and is a contributor to Time, The New York Times, Hindustan Times, OPEN magazine, and other publications.
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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.