New York, November 21
Critically-acclaimed books by three Indian writers have featured among this year's 100 notable books list of The New York Times that also includes former US president Barack Obama's newly released memoir 'A Promised Land'.
Editors of The New York Times Book Review selected 100 "notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction" works from around the world.
The prestigious list also includes the work of fiction 'A Burning' by India-born Megha Majumdar.
'Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line' by Deepa Anappara, who grew up in Kerala, also features on the list.
Samanth Subramanian's 'A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane' is a nonfiction work.
"Haldane, the British biologist and ardent communist who helped synthesise Darwinian evolution with Mendelian genetics, was once as famous as Einstein. Subramanian's elegant biography doubles as a timely allegory of the fraught relationship between science and politics," the report said.
'Red Pill' by British-Indian author Hari Kunzru also features in the list.
"A fellowship at a study center in Germany turns sinister and sets a writer on a possibly paranoid quest to expose a political evil he believes is loose in the world. Kunzru's wonderfully weird novel traces a lineage from German Romanticism to National Socialism to the alt-right, and is rich with insights on surveillance and power," the report said. PTI
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