Last love in twilight of empire
Date of Review:
Oct.31.2004
Reviewer:
Sandip Roy
Source:
San Francisco Chronicle
Is he the next Arundhati Roy, or Salman Rushdie version 7.0, or Zadie Smith crossed with Vikram Seth? In the end, The Last Song of Dusk might evoke whiffs of all of them, but the book is nobody's love child but Shanghvi's—lush, witty and eventually achingly sad.
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About Siddharth
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, born in Bombay in 1977, was educated in India, England, and America. His first novel—The Last Song of Dusk—won the Betty Trask Award, Britain; the Premio Grinzane Cavour, Italy; and was nominated for the IMPAC Award, Ireland....