Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s First Collection of Non-fiction

HarperCollins India is proud to announce the acquisition of

LOSS

by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

Personal essays on mortality from one of
India’s most beloved writers

What does it mean to lose someone? To answer this timeless question, bestselling author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi draws on a string of devastating personal losses – of his mother, of his father and of a beloved pet – to craft a moving memoir of death and grief. With surgical detachment and subtle feeling, Shanghvi charts the landscape of bereavement as he takes the reader down the dark, winding path to healing. Clear-eyed and intimate, Loss is the first collection of non-fiction by one of India’s most beloved writer of life experience.

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s first novel, The Last Song of Dusk, won the Betty Trask Award, the Premio Grinzane Cavour, and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize. His second book, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, was shortlisted for the Man Asian Prize. His most recent book is The Rabbit & the Squirrel. A past contributor to TIME, the New York Times,Vogue and other publications, he lives in north Goa.

Photograph by Shekhar Karambelker

‘This book owes its seed in the grace and generosity of my editor, Udayan Mitra, who shepherded this book from its original form – as a collection of my non-fiction – to what it is now: a brief meditation on loss. In three essays in Loss I’ve tried to look in the eye what I have lost; I never thought that everything, and everyone, we have lost could mark our character so profoundly.’ — Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

‘Loss is an incredibly powerful book about bereavement and grief — a personal ode to the mortality and transcience that define human existence. We at HarperCollins India are immensely proud to be publishing this first work of non-fiction from Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi. Loss is a book about death, but it will be a life-changing book for many a reader.’ — Udayan Mitra, Publisher Literary

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