Synopses & Reviews
In a networked world, anything can change n an instant, and sometimes everything does....Transmission, Hari Kunzru's new novel of love and lunacy, immigration and immunity, introduces a daydreaming Indian computer geek whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer.
Lonely and naïve, Arjun Mehta spends his days as a lowly assistant virus tester and pining away for his free-spirited colleague Christine. Arjun gets laid-off like so many of his Silicon Valley peers. In an act of desperation to keep his job, he releases a mischievous but destructive virus around the globe that has major unintended consequences. As world order unravels, so does Arjun's sanity, in a rollicking cataclysm that reaches Bollywood and, not so coincidentally, the glamorous star of Arjun's favorite Indian movie.
Award-winning novelist Hari Kunzru was hailed as a "modern-day Kipling," for his bestselling debut, The Impressionist. With this exuberant follow-up, Kunzru takes an ultracontemporary turn in a stylish, playful, and wicked exploration of life at the click of a mouse.
Synopsis
An exuberant novel of love and lunacy, immigration and immunity, is offered by a dazzling new talent hailed as "a modern-day Kipling" for his bestselling, award-winning debut. Unabridged.
About the Author
Hari Kunzru, author of the award-winning and bestselling novel
The Impressionist, was named as one of Granta's "20 Best Fiction Writers Under 40."
The Impressionist was a
Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist; was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and a British Book Award; and was one of
Publishers Weekly's Best Novels of 2002. Kunzru has written for a variety of English and international publications, including
The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The London Review of Books, and
Wired. He lives in London.