![]() But Akbar’s novel is much more than timely: it succeeds both as social criticism and as a gripping narrative, smoothly and movingly told. Leila, Prayaag Akbar’s debut novel and the first book to be published by Simon & Schuster India, is a dystopian work that speaks directly to the ongoing changes in India’s politics and society. ![]() Speculative fiction in general is an underdeveloped area of Indian writing in English. It is no surprise that the rapid growth of militant Hindu nationalism is starting to provoke a similar interest in India. new novels by Omar El Akkad and Mohsin Hamid point to the dystopias that will result from a failure to address our current problems. It Can’t Happen Here has been rediscovered as a prescient warning of the possibility of fascism in the U.S. Nineteen Eighty-Four have returned to bestseller lists Sinclair Lewis’ ironically titled ![]() ![]() The rise of xenophobic and authoritarian nationalism in Europe and the United States has prompted a huge surge of interest in dystopian fiction. ![]()
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