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TRENDING OF 2020 ECO BOOKS For years, climate change activists and denialists have been fighting over its veracity. Now that the results are more evident than ever before, it is making itself felt in literature too. In his non-fiction book, The Great Derangement , Amitev Ghosh had argued for the representation of heaving, unpredictable nature and followed it up with The Gun Island , where nature shows a will of its own, apart from human design. Internatially, writers like Robert McFarlane are transforming the way we think of nature, taking us to the bowels, giving us the arboreal perspective, as the Pulitizer-winner novel, The Overstory, does as well. We can expect more eco books in coming years as scientists finish mapping the wood wide web - the underground network of microbes that connects trees, on the one hand, and we slide further away from nature, on the other. GROWING UP If children's literature makes you think of candies, rainbows and neat morals, you are la...

BOOKS - REVIEW SENSE OF AN ENDING Julian Barnes If there is a definitive Barnes, this is the one. This 2011 Man Booker prize winner gathers in all pages almost all the Barnes's pets themes- an eroded sense of seriousness in the English psyche, class, ageing, mortality, tricky remembrance. The title is a reference to literary critic Frank Kermode's book of the same name , where he explains how writers bring in plot twists to make reader readjust there sense of an ending. Expectedly, Barnes does the same , showing how we restructure memories in the way we want things to happen , while reality might have been otherwise. A novel of ideas, glittering with intelligent insights. purchase links :---  https://amzn.to/2MIvrya THE SELLOUT Paul Beatty This booker winner means to offend, and ho. The satire is scathing, and it spares none. Set in LA, the novel is narrated by Banbon , who observes and describes his black community with a zen detachment. In this...