Cobalt Blue (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781620971758)

Now a film from Netflix India, this memorable novel confronts issues of sexuality in a changing society through a love triangle between a brother, sister, and their family's lodger

Recently adapted into a stunning Netflix film, Cobalt Blue is a tale of rapturous love and fierce heartbreak told with tenderness and unsparing clarity. Brother and sister Tanay and Anuja both fall in love with the same man, an artist lodging in their family home in Pune, in western India. He seems like the perfect tenant, ready with the rent and happy to listen to their mother's musings on the imminent collapse of Indian culture. But he's also a man of mystery. He has no last name. He has no family, no friends, no history, and no plans for the future. When he runs away with Anuja, he overturns the family's lives.

Translated from the Marathi by acclaimed novelist and critic Jerry Pinto, Sachin Kundalkar's elegantly wrought and exquisitely spare novel explores the disruption of a traditional family by a free-spirited stranger in order to examine a generation in transition. Intimate, moving, sensual, and wry in its portrait of young love, Cobalt Blue is a frank and lyrical exploration of gay life in India that recalls the work of Edmund White and Alan Hollinghurst--of people living in emotional isolation, attempting to find long-term intimacy in relationships that until recently were barely conceivable to them.

Author: Sachin Kundalkar
ISBN-10: 1620971755
ISBN-13: 9781620971758
Publisher: New Press
Language: English
Published: 08/02/2016
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2016
Publishers Weekly 06/06/2016
Booklist 07/01/2016 pg. 25