HONOR, by Thrity Umrigar (Swift, $36.99)
There’s no escaping the horror that underpins Honor, a novel in which two Indian Hindu brothers brutally avenge their sister’s marriage to a Muslim man.
It’s a horror made all the more real by the timing of this novel’s release, 75 years to the month since the partition of the Indian subcontinent into Hindu-majority in the same week in which Indian-born author Salman Rushdie was stabbed, the target of a decades-old Muslim “fatwa”, was doubly chilling.
