Monday 1 January 2018

Award Winning Political Fiction Books 2017

By Lisa Morgan


Newspapers and magazines take away the shine whenever politics is being discussed. However, their coverage can never beat the award winning political fiction books 2017. These are novels written by authors of diverse backgrounds using unique perspectives that are incredibly captivating. They are an eye opener in a world where people relate naively to politics.

1984 is a strange leader in this category considering that it was penned by George Orwell in 1949. It is an imagination of a future that seems to have caught up with humanity. He imagines a future where the world is under the control of super powers and where newspeaks and thoughtcrime are common place. The reality for this novel came to fore with the introduction of Macintosh by Apple in 1984. It would be also form the subject of 2007 Democratic primaries.

All the Kings Men is the work of Robert Warren that is also decades old. His subject is Willie Stark, a Louisiana politician who rises and falls through the pages. This is a story of sacrifices made by politicians and an interrogation of whether their hopes are realized. This literary masterpiece won the Pulitzer Prize for its exemplary narration.

What if the engine of the world could stop? This is the idea explored by Rand Ayn in Atlas Shrugged. The author is an apologist for capitalism as is show in his literary works. The novel has an admirable scope that will rattle any literary mind. It has won the price of the second most influential American book. The title is common among conservatives for its libertarian views.

Politics is difficult to divorce from military and war. Joseph Heller finds the subject easy to ridicule in his satirical title Catch-22. He is an impressive writer considering that this was his first book. He went an extra mile to introduce new lexicon to language. As you flip through the pages, it will be difficult to understand how this is a first novel for the writer.

Golding William is not an author who needs introduction. The Lord of Flies is a naturally selling title that approaches politics from a philosophical point of view. He explores the idea of civilization and whether it gets as deep as the soul. In his assessment, the soul never gets civilized considering what it can do when law and order are suspended. The results are dumbfounding.

To Kill A Mocking Bird thrust Harper Lee into the limelight because of its classic narration. The issues explored are race and class. With Deep South of the 30s as the setting, and an 8 year old main character as the narrator, this is a classic and endearing read. His mastery of character building is remarkable, enabling his to create the most enduring characters in his class of literature. This is a debate about hypocrisy and prejudice on one hand and perseverance and justice on the other.

Yanis Varoufakis uses Adults in the Room to draw the line between theory and practice. As a lecturer and economist, he thinks he has the answer to the problems facing Greece during its economic crisis. The answer in his opinion does not lie in austerity. When he becomes the finance minister in 2015, reality strikes him that things are not always as they appear.




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