Rushdie, Seth among `must read' writers

The Hindu : International / India & World : "Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy are among the 50 novels by contemporary writers voted as 'essential reads'' at Britain's Haye-on-Wye literary festival. The selectors put them in the same class as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's A Hundred Years of Solitude, Philip Roth's American Pastoral, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum and Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, among others. "