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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
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
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.
The devastatingly original debut novel from a winner of the 2016
Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. "Profoundly moving . . . I
cannot remember when I last read something as touching as this."
-Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace First published by a
small press in India, Jerry Pinto's debut novel has already taken
the literary world by storm. Suffused with compassion, humor, and
hard-won wisdom, Em and the Big Hoom is a modern masterpiece, and
its American publication is certain to be one of the major literary
events of the season. Meet Imelda and Augustine, or-as our young
narrator calls his unusual parents-Em and the Big Hoom. Most of the
time, Em smokes endless beedis and sings her way through life. She
is the sun around which everyone else orbits. But as enchanting and
high-spirited as she can be, when Em's bipolar disorder seizes her
she becomes monstrous, sometimes with calamitous consequences for
herself and others. This accomplished debut is graceful and urgent,
with a one-of-a-kind voice that will stay with readers long after
the last page.
A marriage of affluence and abject poverty, where a grey concrete
jungle is the backdrop to a heady potpourri of ethnic, linguistic
and religious subcultures, Bombay, renamed Mumbai after the goddess
Mumbadevi, defies definition. Bombay, Meri Jaan, comprising poems
and prose pieces by some of the biggest names in literature, in
addition to cartoons, photographs, a song and a Bombay Duck recipe,
tries to capture the spirit of this great metropolis. Salman
Rushdie, Pico Iyer, Dilip Chitre, Saadat Hasan Manto, V.S. Naipaul,
Khushwant Singh and Busybee, among others, write about aspects of
the city: the high-rise apartments and the slums; camaraderie and
isolation in the crowded chawls; bhelpuri on the beach and cricket
in the gully; the women's compartment of a local train; encounter
cops who battle the underworld; the jazz culture of the sixties;
the monsoon floods; the Shiv Sena; the cinema halls; the sea.
Vibrant, engaging and provocative, this is an anthology as rich and
varied as the city it celebrates.
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