Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s first novel, The Last Song of Dusk, translated into ten languages, won the Betty Trask Award (UK); the Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy); and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize. Shanghvi lives in Bombay. A beautiful but twisted affair between a married older woman and a young photographer takes centre stage in The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, a sharp and ravishing examination of modern India’s perverse fascination with celebrity, the tension between public morality and private desire, and all the awful things we commit in the name of love. Read excerpt of The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay Contact author at: sdshanghvi@yahoo.com