What's on my bedside table: Hari Kunzru
Show 3: The My Revolutions author on his best bedtime books...
"I'll read anywhere and everywhere. I rarely leave the house without a book, and there's always a teetering pile of books by my bedside. I'll usually have two of three things on the go at any one time."
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
"McCarthy is one of the great masters of contemporary American fiction. His books are usually centred around a journey of some kind, but this is something of a depaerture for him. It's set after a catastrophe of some kind - probably a nuclear war - and a man and a boy are travelling through this blasted landscape.It's a very bleak book, but it does have some hope in it. There's an extraordinary kind of beauty to the writing."
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
"I recommend this book to everyone. It was written in 1956 by a Trinidadian who came over to this country and did all sorts of menial jobs. He wrote about the lives of marginal West Indian men trying to make a life for themselves in this cold, greay and rather hostil country. It's an extraordinary modern-feeling book, and is a wonderful, wonderful novel."
Temptations of the West by Pankaj Mishra
"Mishra is an Indian journalist and novelist who has a very different take ont he Indian miracle. It's very different from anythign you'll hear from European and American journalists."
