Hi everyone,
Any contemporary political fiction recommendations for my 75-year old Marxist husband?
When he was younger he read and loved Steinbeck, John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, and the like, also The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Germinal by Zola. He feels there's nothing like this around now.
He's also (more recently) enjoyed The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, Mehmet my Hawk by Yashar Kemal & Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman.
Thank you!
by fanofawe
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Maybe The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.
John Berger’s Into Their Labours series
I’ve not read much of him, but China Miéville is explicitly Marxist. I enjoyed The City and the City, and his nonfiction account of the Russian Revolutions, October.
Cory Doctorow is similarly explicitly leftwing but I’ve never read any of his.
– Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
– Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
– We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
– The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (I’m assuming he’s probably read this one though)