Author: Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Year: 2004
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Award winners, Fiction
Cultures: India, Asia
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9780345485007
0345485009 |
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"Set in 1920s India, this magical debut novel tells the story of beautiful Anuradha, whose songs are spellbinding, but whose fate is troubled."
-Elle
When the astonishingly lovely Anuradha moves to Bombay to marry Vardhmaan, a charming young doctor, their life together has all the makings of a fairy tale. But when their firstborn son dies in a terrible accident, tragedy transforms their marriage into a bleak landscape. As the pair starts fresh in a heartbroken old villa by the sea, they are joined by Nandini, a dazzling and devious artist with a trace of leopard blood in her veins. While Nandini flamboyantly takes on Bombay's art scene, the couple attempts to mend their marriage, eventually discovering that real love, mercurial and many-hued, is given and received in silence. Sensuous and electric, achingly moving and wickedly funny, The Last Song of Dusk is a tale of fate that will haunt your heart like an old and beloved song.
"A cornucopia of life at full tilt and high color . . . Shanghvi-who's been compared to Arundhati Roy, Zadie Smith, and Vikram Seth-combines ribald humor with prose poetry."
-Sunday Oregonian
"Few first novelists achieve such perfection, such control, in their performance."
-India Today
"A gorgeous novel . . . written with a youthful twinkling eye."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Lush, witty . . . sassy prose . . . moves like a carnival ride."
-San Francisco Chronicle
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