The Impressionist is Hari Kunzru's sweeping novel of India, empire and identity. In India, at the birth of the last century, an infant is brought howling into the world, his remarkable paleness marking him out from his brown-skinned fellows. Revered at first, he is later cast out from his wealthy ho[...]
Hari Kunzru's Transmission is a witty novel about cyberspace, a Bollywood dancer and a world where everyone is connected. It's the twenty-first century, and everything and everyone is connected. Meet Arjun Mehta, an Indian cybergeek catapulted into California's spiralling hi-tech sector; Leela Zahir[...]
"In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men."
--Honore de Balzac, "Une passion dans le desert, " 1830
Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However[...]
Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power. Before Raj reappears-- inexplicably unharmed, but not unchanged--the fate of this young family will intersect with th[...]
A new work of fiction by Hari Kunzru, best-selling author of Gods Without Men, forms the basis of this innovative book and exhibition, in which reading a story is translated into a three-dimensional visual experience by leading typographers, illustrators and graphic designers. Hari Kunzru has conju[...]
I en avkrok i India, ved århundredets begynnelse, krysses veiene til en engelsk forstmann og en motvillig hindubrud. Under en forferdelig flom skylles de opp på samme berghylle. Ni måneder senere kommer et guttebarn til verden. Og astrologen blir forvirret og fylt av frykt ved synet av horoskopet[...]
Leela Zahir, ung Bollywoodskådespelerska, ses plötsligt dansande i sin sari i en sekundkort snutt i en miljon inboxar. Arjun Mehta, datanörd från en förstad till New Dehli, har hamnat i sinversion av den amerikanska drömmen, som virusjägare, om än på assistentnivå, på ett av Silicon Valle[...]
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Leela Zahir, ung Bollywoodskådespelerska, ses plötsligt dansande i sin sari i en sekundkort snutt i e[...]
Mike Frame ska fylla femtio år. Dagarna i det lilla antikvariatet fördrivs i stilla kontemplation. Men hans lugna vardagslunk är på väg att rämna. För vad sambon Miranda och styvdottern Sam inte vet är att Mike egentligen heter något annat. Under studentrevolten kring 1970 levde han mitt i [...]