EVENT 20/02: Santanu Bhattacharya introduces Deviants
Santanu Bhattacharya
ISBN 13: 9780241707234
Join us for a fantastic evening with Santanu Bhattacharya and Dr Florian Stadtler to discuss Santanu's new novel Deviants, 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.
Date:
Thursday 20th of February
Venue:
Max Minerva's, 47 Henleaze Road, BS9 4JU
Time:
Doors at 18:30. Discussion at 19:00. Finish approx 20:00.
Tickets:
£5.50 ticket only
£16.99 ticket with Deviants (hardback).
£1 Pay What You Can
(Please only choose the PWYC tickets if you need to, they are limited and intended for those who really need them.)
50p from each ticket goes to Caring In Bristol
You don't need to bring your ticket with you, we will have a list of names on the door. Books will be available to buy on the night.
ABOUT THE BOOK
DEVIANTS
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Santanu Bhattacharya grew up in India, and studied at the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore. He won the Desmond Elliott Prize Residency in 2023, and the Mo Siewcharran and Life Writing Prizes in 2021.
His first novel, One Small Voice, was an Observer best debut novel of 2023, and was shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the Society of Authors’ Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. He now lives in London.
Deviants is his second novel.
Dr Florian Stadtler is a Senior Lecturer in Literature and Migration at the University of Bristol. He researches South Asian Literatures, the works of Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh, Bollywood and Indian cinemas, British South Asian History, Literature and Film, Indian popular cinema and its representation in South Asian fiction.
From 2010-2022, Florian was the Reviews Editor of Wasafiri Magazine, the UK’s leading magazine for international contemporary writing. He is now the Deputy Chair on the Board of Trustees.
Florian is also the Co-Investigator of the AHRC funded project, Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830-present, which aims towards building an extensive digital resource of archives.