The Last Song of Dusk Author:Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi Set in colonial India, "The Last Song Of Dusk" follows the fortunes of Anuradha, whose fabled beauty is such that the peacocks of Udaipur gather to bid her farewell as she journeys to meet her groom, Vardhmaan, in Bombay. Anuradha's bittersweet story intertwines with that of her cousin Nandini - a seductive orphan with a dark heart, a penchant f... more »or panthers and an extraordinary gift for painting - and with the secret history and slow-burning revenge of a house. Written in Technicolour, Bollywood prose, this is a magical piece of storytelling, a novel that pirouettes between laughter and heartbreak, which will appeal to all fans of Joanne Harris, Isabel Allende and Arundhati Roy.« less
Loved it, loved it!!! A beautiful saga, equal parts humorous and heart-breaking. The tone reminds me of Gabriel Garcia Marquez If he were to have written a tale set in Bombay...