Now a Netflix India film: A novel exploring sexuality in a changing society through a love triangle between a brother, sister, and the family''s lodger.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—of people living in emotional isolation, attempting to find long-term intimacy in relationships that until recently were barely conceivable to them.Finalist for the Crossword Book Award and the DSC South Asia Prize"A unique and subtle exploration of heartbreak."―Booklist"A complex and intricate story about love, family, and making one''s own path." ―Publishers Weekly"Intriguing and original. . . . a refreshing new voice for a new generation." ―Anita Desai, three-time Booker Prize nominee and author of Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Baumgartner''s Bombay

Now a Netflix India film: A novel exploring sexuality in a changing society through a love triangle between a brother, sister, and the family''s lodger.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—of people living in emotional isolation, attempting to find long-term intimacy in relationships that until recently were barely conceivable to them.Finalist for the Crossword Book Award and the DSC South Asia Prize"A unique and subtle exploration of heartbreak."―Booklist"A complex and intricate story about love, family, and making one''s own path." ―Publishers Weekly"Intriguing and original. . . . a refreshing new voice for a new generation." ―Anita Desai, three-time Booker Prize nominee and author of Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Baumgartner''s Bombay