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The Last Song of Dusk

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

In the tradition of Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie, a brilliant new voice tells an exuberant and tender story of love and loss, sex, karma, and colonialism set in 1920s India.

Anuradha Patwardhan is a young woman of such legendary beauty the peacocks line up to bid her farewell when she leaves her family home. She is endowed with a gift for singing magical songs, and she is off to Bombay to marry Vardhmaan, a well-to-do doctor so handsome, serious, and dashing, that women feign illness to see him. They are such a charmed couple, only a fairytale marriage can be their due. But The Last Song of Dusk tells the far darker and deeper story of love freighted with envy, passion, and loss.

When their first child dies in a horrible accident, their fates begin to unravel in a heartbroken old villa that seems to have designs on their second child, the unnaturally silent Shloka. Into their lives comes an alluring girl with a trace of leopard blood in her veins. With her in their midst and shaking up Bombay’s status quo, they navigate the ever-changing landscape of love.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
India
Original Language
English
Publisher
Arcade Publishing

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