Deviants
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Publishing:13th Feb '25
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 13th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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'Compulsive and wrenching ...Bhattacharya has written the epic text for the South Asian queer community that the characters in this book long to find' Sarvat Hasin, author of The Giant Dark
'There is an epic confidence to Bhattacharya’s writing' Samira Ahmed
'It’smagnificent: funny, melancholic, sharply true. The force of it crept up on me in a brilliantly subtle way' James Cahill, author of Tiepolo Blue
FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF ONE SMALL VOICE: a bold, electrifying story of a family in which three generations of gay men in India fight for love and dignity against the currents of their times
Vivaan, a teenager in India’s silicon plateau, has discovered love on his smartphone. Intoxicating, boundary-breaking love. His parents know he is gay, and their support is something Vivaan can count on, but they don’t know what exactly their son gets up to in the online world.
For his uncle, born thirty years earlier, things were very different. Mambro’s life changed forever when he fell for a male classmate at a time, and in a country, where the persecution of gay people was rife under a colonial-era law criminalising homosexuality.
And before that was Mambro’s uncle Sukumar, a young man hopelessly in love with another young man, but forced by social taboos to keep their relationship a secret at all costs. Sukumar would never live the life he yearned for, but his story would ignite and inspire his nephew and grand-nephew after him.
Bold and bracing, intimate and heartbreaking, Deviants examines the histories we inherit and the legacies we leave behind.
'Bhattacharya's storytelling talents are limitless' Nikesh Shukla, praise for One Small Voice
A joy to read, a full universe of feeling ... A born storyteller' Max Porter, praise for One Small Voice
It’s magnificent: funny, melancholic, sharply true. The force of it crept up on me in a brilliantly subtle way * James Cahill, author of Tiepolo Blue *
Deviants is so compulsive and wrenching it made me miss my tube stop more than once. Rarely have I felt so invested in a novel: I carried each strand with me into my life, their joy, grief and hope. The detail and care that goes into these stories makes them burn in you long after the pages are closed. Bhattacharya has written the epic text for the South Asian queer community that the characters in this book long to find * Sarvat Hasin, author of The Giant Dark *
There is an epic confidence to Bhattacharya’s writing * Samira Ahmed *
Deviants is a beautifully written and formally inventive multi-generational tale of gay life in one Indian family * Ben Fergusson, author of Tales from the Fatherland *
Bhattacharya's storytelling talents are limitless * Nikesh Shukla, praise for One Small Voice *
One of the best debuts this year * Guardian, praise for One Small Voice *
Written with verve, intelligence and compassion * Irish Times, praise for One Small Voice *
A joy to read, a full universe of feeling ... A born storyteller * Max Porter, praise for One Small Voice *
Bhattacharya has the enviable ability of creating a cast of characters that feel as real as any person I've met. His effortless writing sings on the page * Kasim Ali, praise for One Small Voice *
Bhattacharya is a vivid andhumane storyteller with a talent for encapsulating the social in the personal * Sydney Morning Herald, praise for One Small Voice *
Intoxicating ... Terrific * Daily Mail, praise for One Small Voice *
ISBN: 9780241707234
Dimensions: 222mm x 138mm x 40mm
Weight: 500g
352 pages