The Last Canvas

By N. Lalit

Debasis Sahu is a painter par excellence, a prodigy, who arrives in Mumbai with a goal. However, he encounters the true personality of the city and its people when his only contact and friend, Krishna, is unable to help him. In a metropolitan landscape notorious for its exorbitant room tariffs, he spends several nights with a prostitute in Kamathipura; to conserve his finances, a trick he learns on the very first day while having tea in a small eatery, Ram Bharose. After several weeks he runs out of money. His visits to the prostitute with whom he keeps a safe distance ends on an unusual note. The string of compelling events and failures turn him into a roadside bum. It is at this point in time he meets Sheetal Sanghvi, a beautiful but ruthless art dealer ...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1794333606
• ISBN13: 9781794333604
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"