Black River

Black River

By
Nilanjana Roy
Nilanjana Roy
2024 • 368 pages

This brilliant, brutal and utterly affecting novel, about the murder of an 8-year-old child in rural India, uses the trappings of the mystery to examine deeper ills in the entire country.

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