Unmanush by Suparna Chatterjee Ghoshal [Hardcover]

This is a narrative that repeatedly attempts to cross the delicate boundary between the supernatural and reality - only to find itself unable to do so. In truth, this is not just a story. Across the vast expanse of India, incidents like these unfold every moment - incidents so extraordinary that they seem like fiction to us. Because fiction is imagination, not reality. And since it is not real, we feel no obligation to accept it. Perhaps it is not a matter of obligation at all. Rather, it is the unsettling truth that we may not be able to endure, which is why we choose to dismiss it as mere storytelling. The novel is set in a remote region of Jharkhand, near the Bengal border. Within its pages, the lives of several women take shape - woven into the beliefs surrounding a local malevolent deity and the inescapable grip of supernatural faith.