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, titled LOSS. 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. Here we have the author in an in-depth conversation about his book and its poignant themes with Udayan Mitra, Publisher [Literary] at HarperCollins India -

Talking about the book and what its subject means to him, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi said, '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.'

A book with its very unique treatment of a universal subject, reflected also in its minimal yet striking design, LOSS is a book which is more relevant in today's milieu where the pandemic has claimed so many lives. Talking about its importance, Udayan Mitra, Publisher- Literary at HarperCollins India said, ‘Loss is an incredibly powerful book about bereavement and grief — a personal ode to the mortality and transience that define human existence. Loss is a book about death, but it will be a life-changing book for many a reader.’

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