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Dreams in Prussian Blue has been published by Penguin India as one of its Metro Reads series in January 2010.

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Blurb

“Listen, Michael. This is serious. This is your best chance to help me… us. If you waste this, it”s all over.”

“What”s all over?”

“Everything. Between us.”

“Naina?”

“Five minutes, that”s all you have. I kid you not.”

First-year student Naina is utterly smitten by her senior, Michael, acknowledged genius and resident rebel of the Fine Arts College, Mumbai. So when he proposes that they drop out of college and live-in, she readily agrees. But life with Michael soon turns into an emotional rollercoaster. Temperamental, opinionated and incredibly selfish, he expects Naina to run the household so that he is free to paint. Naina tries her hand at several odd jobs, but when an accident leaves Michael blind, their life together begins to come undone as she can only helplessly watch. And in trying to pull it together, Naina is driven to being what she has never been—a liar and a cheat. Will Michael forgive her when he learns the truth? Will she forgive him for what he has done to her?





























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Reviews

Review in The Hindustan Times.

All Naina wanted was to see her boyfriend, struggling artist Michael Agnelo, succeed. Author Paritosh Uttam’s novella Dreams in Prussian Blue is the compelling story of a young couple caught in a web of lies and desperation. … Part of publisher Penguin’s new Metro Reads series, it’s a quick, easy read—but it’s no fluffy romance either, so don’t go looking for an ‘ever after’.

Review by The Hungry Reader on the blog Of Books and Reading.

…books like this one come as a breath of fresh air. … Part mystery, part love affair, Dreams in Prussian Blue is like I said different. … By the end of it, I wish there was more to it. I wish I would know more about Naina and Michael. Paritosh certainly knows how to get you to keep the pages turning, and one of the highpoints of the book, as mentioned before, is that it is short and does not tax the brains.





























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