Truth/Untruth
Devi, Mahasweta / Katyal, Anjum![Truth/Untruth](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/385/38560943/CHSBZCOP0338560943.jpg)
Set in Calcutta in the mid-1980s, Truth/Untruth is a fast-paced thriller built around the death of the pregnant Jamuna--a maid in a newly affluent residential apartment complex--and Arjun, the upwardly mobile businessman who seduced her. Packed with a cast of colorful characters, this novel is a trenchant, darkly humorous, and unsentimental look at the different segments of Calcutta society: from the middle-class culture vultures to the unscru...