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Truth/Untruth
Engelsk Hardback
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Truth/Untruth
Engelsk Hardback

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A trenchant, darkly humorous, and unsentimental look at Calcutta society. 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 unscrupulous “promoter” class and the domestic helpers and slum goons who form an intrinsic part of the city’s life. All are implicated in a complex web of guilt and bizarre twists and turns. Sex, lies, death—the great modernist themes—run like a thread through this book, exposing societal greed, lust, corruption, and moral hypocrisy with a sardonic tone that spares none. An unusual novel by an author who is otherwise known for her hard-hitting activist-feminist stories, Truth/Untruth underlines the exploitative vicious cycle that defines urban relations between the haves and have-nots.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
144
ISBN-13:
9781803090771
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1803090774
Udg. Dato:
6 maj 2023
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
239mm
Højde:
161mm
Forlag:
Seagull Books London Ltd
Oplagsdato:
6 maj 2023
Forfatter(e):
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