Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi's first novel The Last Song of Dusk won the Betty Trask Award in the UK the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize in Ireland His second book The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay was shortlisted for the Man Asian Prize The two novels along with The Rabbit & the Squirrel and Loss essays on death and grief are published by HarperCollins India Shanghvi works and lives in a village in north Goa
<p>What does it mean to lose someone To answer this timeless question bestselling author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi draws on a string of devastating personal losses of his mother of his father and of a beloved pet to craft a moving memoir of death and grief With surgical detachment and subtle feeling Shanghvi charts the landscape of bereavement as he takes the reader down the dark winding path to healing Clear-eyed and intimate Loss is the first Volume of non-fiction by one of India’s most beloved writer of life experience</p>
