The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay A Novel [Paperback]

When photographer Karan Seth comes to Bombay intent on immortalizing a city charged by celebrity and sensation, he is instantly drawn in by its allure and cruelty. Along the way, he discovers unlikely allies: Samar , an eccentric pianist; Zaira, the reclusive queen of Bollywood; and Rhea, a married woman who seduces Karan into a tender but twisted affair. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes, the four lives are irreparably torn apart. Flung into a Fitzgeraldian world of sex, crime and collusion, Karan learns that what the heart sees the mind's eye may never behold. Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi'sThe Lost Flamingoes of Bombayis a razor sharp chronicle of four friends caught in modern India 's tidal wave of uneven prosperity and political failure. It's also a profoundly moving meditation on love's betrayal and the redemptive powers of friendship.

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi's debut 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.The Lost Flamingoes of Bombaywas shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008 and was a number one bestseller in India. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Bombay.

Siddharth Shanghvi's literary forebears are Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and E.M. Forester. He is also an original, a major storyteller who beguiles us into a world of illusion and bestows us with a sharp-eyed lens into the heart.The Lost Flamingoes of Bombayis a triumph. Amy Tan, award-winning author of The Joy Luck Club

Lost Flamingoes of Bombayis at once a portrait of a teeming megacity and a study in loneliness. Beneath the razor-sharp asides and camp one-liners there lurks the inescapable melancholy of rootlessness, rendered in prose steeped in lyricism and longing. Siddharth Shanghvi belongs to that rarest of breeds: a writer who can truly capture the flaws in the human lC…