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The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay (Paperback)

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

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Karan Seth, star photographer at The India Chronicle, is in Bombay on a private mission: to immortalize the city in a unique photo-record of its hidden faces. In the pursuit of his ambitious dream, Karan finds unlikely allies: Samar Arora, the eccentric pianist who inexplicably spurned limelight at the peak of his career; Zaira, whose shy elegance belies her status as the ravishing star of Bombay's silver screen; and Rhea Dalal, whose seductive melancholy born of unfulfilled dreams and a childless marriage draws Karan into a tender but twisted affair.

Then tragedy strikes, unexpected and gruesome, tearing the four lives apart. As a murky murder trial ensues, peeling the layers off the vibrant, pulsating city, Karan is exposed to a Fitzgeraldian world of sex, crime and politics. Utterly disenchanted, his life shorn of love, he abandons his twin passions?the camera and Bombay?and heads to England in search of restitution and normalcy. Yet, like the flamingoes of Sewri, who unfailingly give in to the strange, haunting pull of the great metropolis, almost in defiance of the travails it brings them, Karan too knows that he must return to his old loves . . .

The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay is as much a razor-sharp depiction of contemporary urban society and its obscene obsession with celebrity and sensation as it is an affecting tale about love's betrayals and the redemptive powers of friendship. Acerbic and elegiac by turns, and potent in its portrayal of Bombay in all its allure and menace, it confirms Shanghvi's prodigious skill and range as a storyteller.

Book Details

Title:	The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
Publisher:	Penguin Books India
Author:	Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Edition:	Paperback
ISBN:	0670081752
EAN:	9780670081752
No. of Pages:	368

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A good read..

By Krish, 05/05/2010 10:35:50

Well, to set the record straight it is a good book. By the time you reach its end, you wouldn't regret having picked it up at the first place. The story is not extraordinary, with an important ingredient as the author admits being inspired from articles printed in media. What I find more interesting about the book is the characters. Siddharth, the author has done a good job introducing each of the characters with events rather than descriptions. This allows readers too, to form an image of them. How these characters evolve and then tail off is what makes the book a good read in my opinion.
The story is woven around a musician who gives up his profession at the age of 25 having made enough to live comfortably on his royalties, a budding photographer who wants to capture the real Bombay in his camera, a movie star struck by an evil stroke of fate and a could-have-been-great middle aged housewife who also loves pottery. How fate brings these characters together, intertwines their lives and changes them beyond recognition is the theme of the book.

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