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As young Anuradha boards a train for Bombay, where she will marry a man she has never met, peacocks appear out of nowhere to serenade her. Such a ...Show synopsisAs young Anuradha boards a train for Bombay, where she will marry a man she has never met, peacocks appear out of nowhere to serenade her. Such a dazzling departure can only lead to an uncertain but exciting future. Sure enough, across her path come a host of colourful characters: Nandini, the artist who walks on water and has a passion for panthers; Mr Bunkusdaas, the father of Bollywood cinema; Diva bai, the sinister old woman rumoured to have fed her sister to crocodiles; and Percival Worthington, the aristocratically limp son of the governor of Bombay. Together they conjure a forgotten world of betrayed love, of dangerous desires and unfathomable sorrow - creating an Indian melody that will haunt you long after the tale is done.Hide synopsis
The Last Song of Dusk (Random House Trade) – Trade paperback (2006)
by
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Trade paperback, Random House Trade 2006
English
307 pages
ISBN: 0345485009 ISBN-13: 9780345485007
"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 ...Show more"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 ChronicleHide
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A good first novel try, Siddharth Shanghvi tries a bit too hard to impress us with his vocabulary. The word pictures he draws are sometimes more distracting than they are informative. He also mixes colloquialisms from so many eras that the reader has to guess whether a particular line has a hidden ...
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