THE LAST SONG OF DUSK: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 08230004B08587
English Summary/英文概要： 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 for 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： SIDDHARTH DHANVANT SHANGHVI的这本彩印小说处女作周旋在笑声与眼泪中，讲述了四个了不起人物的精彩人生。Anuradha Gandharva天生有副神奇的嗓子；她老公Vardhmaan则一直在苦苦挣扎着，怎样对付他那与难开其口的损失；Nandini，一位鬼魅的艺术家，对黑豹情有独钟，还喜欢在水上漫步，最后一位就是Shloka，Shloka是Gandharva的小孩，他瘦弱单薄，安静、一言不发，让人真着急。
他们的人生是在20年代印度的某个心碎的陈旧别墅中慢慢开始，自那时起，他们就开始学习如何在千变万化的情场上驰骋，而这也让他们遇到了一群怪人：Bunkusdaas先生就是其中的一位，他算得上孟莱坞（又称宝莱坞）的奠基人，Stella Dimm英国第一位“Tit”女孩；Libya Dass，你几乎没看她离开过那只陶瓷浴盆；还有就是Percival Worthington是孟买总督的儿子，他是典型的纨绔子弟，唯唯诺诺，而Nandini则很卤莽地一心要跟着他。
〈黄昏末代之歌〉以温婉、睿智的笔锋叙述了真挚、高尚的友谊，巨大的奉献和危险的欲望。
Awards/获奖情况：’Surrealism and magic are mixed with the more everyday traumas of life and love. This is a larger than life story with a definite Bollywood feel to it...The main characters are well drawn, in all their exuberant eccentricity, and their merciless story makes for an adventurous read.’---WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY ’The recent spate of magic-realism novels by writers with one foot in the Raj has been an engaging cultural seam...Shanghvi offers a little something extra... Like Kunzru, Shanghvi places his characters in historically auspicious circumstances, as if the voice of modernity has entered a time machine.’ ---i-D magazine (March 2004)
’this is a modern fairy tale about love and kismet that touches all the senses.’---COMPANY (April 2004)
’[a] colourful first novel...what begins as an erotic fairy tale grows into an exploration of love and loss, sexuality and innocence, friendship and solitude...Shanghvi’s loose, poetic style, [is] cut with a dash of magical realism...Shanghvi’s story has eloquent insights into the nature of love.’---Su Lin Lewis TLS (5.3.04)
’[a] magical debut..Madcap characters shimmy across the pages, throwing out slangy witticisms with insouciant charm, but underneath the glitz the mood is mythically melancholy. Delicious.’---Eithne Farry ELLE (April ’04)
’A gently magical taste of India.’---MIRROR (12.3.04)
’the novel is beautifully paced, exploring huge themes - fate, death, lasting love, vengeance, ambition, acceptance and - via tiny moments - the trickiness of life. The author twists words mercilessly, his choice of language veering between delicate beauty and raucous irreverence. And there’s some extraordinarily fantastic, surprising writing about sexual organs: read it and weep.’ ---Angela Jackson INK
’The magical tale of an Indian family dealing with love, loss and long forgotten secrets.’---HEAT (27 March - 2 April)
’[an] exuberhant performance, part of the post-magical realist trend in Indo-English fiction - with its fantasy, pastiche and satire, and tendency to turn every seed of imagintion into a towering tree...Shanghvi’s extravagant prose teems with adjectives, adverbs [and] personifications.’---Aamer Hussein INDEPENDENT (9.4.04)
’A mixture of magical realism, tragi-comedy, and prose poetry, his debut novel sweeps readers into a tale as old as time, populated by eccentrically beautiful characters...A sure shot on the best-seller list.’---GOOD BOOK GUIDE (1/4/04)
’A promising debut novel, THE LAST SONG OF DUSK is a vivid picture of love and loss in colonial India.’---Jay Richardson THE LIST (1.4.04)
’the arrival of a new voice likely to cause a stir in the style of the impressive debuts of Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai and Hari Kunzru.’---WESTERN DAILY PRESS (27.3.04)
’[a] magical tale...The whole book sparkles with energy, and is by turns cheeky, funny and achingly sad. Reading it is like appreciating a highly skilled tightrope walker: one false move and the whole edifice of magic and invention would come crashing down, but Shanghvi is a sure-footed narrator and never falters. He is not afraid to have his characters talk of karma and dharma, kismet, love and the meaning of life, in passages of tender lyricism that make this a story to treasure.’---Joanna Hines LITERARY REVIEW (May 2004)
’The guru of sex’---TIME OF INDIA
About the Author/作者介绍： A born and bred Bombaywallah, Shanghvi was educated in India, England and America. He has written for The Sunday Times of India, Elle and the San Francisco Chronicle. Born in 1977, he has an MA in International Journalism and an MS In Mass Communications, and has worked as a chef, a kennel boy, and a storyteller.
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