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 style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;">WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;">WINNER OF THE PREMIO GRINZANE CAVOUR PRIZE</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;">‘A magical piece of storytelling’ —<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Sunday Times</em></p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;">After Anuradha and Vardhmaan’s fairytale marriage is interrupted when their young son dies in a tragic accident, they try to rebuild their devasted lives in an old house by the sea. In this history-soaked mansion in 1940s Bombay, the couple is joined by Anuradha’s niece, Nandini, a dazzling young artist with cat’s blood running in her veins. As Nandini daringly takes on Bombay’s art scene, the couple works to save their marriage, eventually discovering that real love, as unpredictable as it is nourishing, is given and received in silence. Witty, perceptive and sad by turns, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">The Last Song of Dusk</em> has endeared itself to a generation of readers with its wild charm and deep heart.</p>
