SIDDHARTH DHANVANT SHANGHVI
Tuesday, June 20 at 8p.m.

Making this welcome return is debut novelist Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi. Now in paperback (Random House), The Last Song of Dusk received the Betty Trask Award for First Novel, and international praise. Currently based in both Bombay and Northern California, he is here tonight with this Bombay-set tale of love and longing. "The vibrant, lush, and sometimes chaotic backdrop of post-colonial India has become fertile ground for a burgeoning circle of Indian novelists that Shanghvi now joins. His first novel blends biting social commentary with a sprawling family saga...In a narrative laced with poetic imagery, Shanghvi juxtaposes political commentary with magical realism, Bollywood's excesses with Gandhi's austerity. Part fairy tale, part satire, part love story—all come together in a marvelously inventive debut." - Booklist.

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