TRENDING OF 2020
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...