The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay: A Novel
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 031259349X / Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, October 2010
While in Bombay to photograph the city, Karan Seth meets eccentric pianist Samar, Bollywood queen Zaira, and the beautiful married Rhea and the foursome find themselves unexpectedly entangled in a world of crime, sex, and collusion.
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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's The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay is 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.
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