Books by 3 Indian writers feature in 2020 '100 Notable Books' selected by The New York Times

Critically-acclaimed books by three Indian writers have featured among this year's 100 table books list of New York Times that also includes former US president Barack Obama's newly released memoir 'A Promised Land'.

Editors of New York Times Book Review selected 100 "table fiction, poetry and nfiction" works from around world. prestigious list also includes work of fiction 'A Burning' by India-born Megha Majumdar.

"A brazen act of terrorism in an Indian metropolis sets plot of this propulsive debut vel in motion, and lands an incent young bystander in jail. With impressive assurance and insight, Majumdar unfolds a timely story about ways power is wielded to manipulate and crush powerless," report said of book.

'Djinn Patrol on Purple Line' by Deepa Anappara, who grew up in Kerala, also features on list.

"This first vel by an Indian journalist probes secrets of a big-city shantytown as a 9-year-old boy tries to solve mystery of a classmate’s disappearance. Anappara impressively inhabits inner worlds of children lost to ir families, and of ors who escape by a thre," leing daily said.

Samanth Subramanian’s 'A Dominant Character: Rical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane' is a nfiction work.

Haldane, British biologist and ardent communist who helped synsize Darwinian evolution with Mendelian genetics, was once as famous as Einstein. Subramanian’s elegant biography doubles as a timely allegory of fraught relationship between science and politics,  report said.

Subramanian is a journalist and lives in London.

'Red Pill' by British-Indian author Hari Kunzru also features in list.

"A fellowship at a study center in Germany turns sinister and sets a writer on a possibly paraid quest to expose a political evil he believes is loose in world. Kunzru’s wonderfully weird vel traces a line from German Romanticism to National Socialism to alt-right, and is rich with insights on surveillance and power," report said. 

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