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A tale of exquisite friendships, immense sacrifices and dangerous desiresPirouetting between laughter and tears, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvis technicolour debut tells the story of four extraordinary lives. Of Anuradha Gandharva, gifted with astonishing beauty and magical songs of her husband, Vardhmaan, struggling with secret losses of Nandini, a deviously alluring artist, with a penchant for panthers and walking on water and of Shloka, the Gandharvas delicate, disturbingly silent child.As their fates unravel in an old villa in 1920s India, they learn to navigate the ever-changing landscape of love, and in doing so encounter a host of eccentrics: Mr. Bunkusdaas, the father of Bollywood cinema Stella Dimm, Englands first ever Tit girl Libya Dass, rarely seen out of her porcelain bathtub and Percival Worthington, the aristocratically limp son of the governor of Bombay, on whom Nandini rashly sets her sights.Told with tenderness and with dazzling wit, The Last Song of Dusk will haunt you long after you have turned the final page.