{"id":81990,"date":"2020-01-22T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/?p=81990"},"modified":"2020-01-22T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:39:10","slug":"reads-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/2020\/01\/22\/reads-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Reads for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
We’re into a new decade, hopefully one which promises as many inspiring, harrowing, heart-wrenching, freeing, interrogative and overall impressing reads as the last.<\/p>\n
Looking at the upcoming titles for 2020, this year is shaping up to be a great year for fiction. Here is a list of just a few reads to look out for this year, though we’ll have reviews up for you to compare with your own reading soon enough.<\/p>\n
Agency, <\/em>by William Gibson, 21st January<\/strong><\/p>\n Agency is a novel that lets you indulge in the political ‘what-ifs’ of the last few major elections. We’ve all surely asked ourselves what the world might have looked like had Hillary come into office in 2017, or rather had Trump not come into office.<\/p>\n Gibson’s Agency, <\/em>described as a ‘prequel’ and a ‘sequel’ to his 2014 novel The Peripheral, <\/em>allows a reader to explore this reality, or his version of this reality.\u00a0<\/em>The novel explores diverging time lines. One being an alternative outcome to the 2017 elections and another a millenia ahead of us.<\/p>\n It is a novel that uses a familiar landscape to map a larger story of the potentialities of time travel, and creates space to indulge in the what-ifs some of us can’t help but contemplate.<\/span><\/p>\n Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line<\/em> by Deepa Anappara, 30th January<\/strong><\/p>\n Anappara’s debut novel Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line\u00a0<\/em>hands over its narrative agency to nine year old Jai. Jai is a young child living in Kerala with, like all young kids, an excitable imagination.<\/p>\n Jai’s perspective enables a reader insight into the every-day life lived by the community of Kerala, with a poignant twist. People are disappearing in Jai’s home town. Specifically, children. Children are going missing and, after a school friend disappears, Jai makes it his responsibility to figure out what is happening.<\/p>\n