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>A love story about friendship. A fable for grown-ups, with illustrations by Stina Wirsen.</p><p>The Squirrel's greatest joy is dancing in the forest with the Rabbit--her beloved friend and equal of heart. While the duo is inseparable, fate has other ideas: the feisty Squirrel is forcibly married to a wealthy boar and the solitary Rabbit enlists in a monastery. Years later, a brief, tragic reunion finds them both transformed by personal defeats. And yet, to each other, they are unchanged, and their private world--where sorrow registered as rapture and wit concealed loss--is just how they had left it. A story of thwarted love, and an ode to the enduring pleasures of friendship, The Rabbit and the Squirrel is a charmed fable for grown-ups, in which one life, against all odds, is fated for the other.</p>
