Transmission

by HariKunzru (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2004

  $3.20

  Fired from his IT job in Redmond, Washington State, Arjun decides to unleash the virus he's been growing on his computer. All over the world the virus has a cascading effect on peoples' lives. Everywhere new viruses are springing up to refer to the film star Leela Zahir in text, image or code!

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $4.10

  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, beguiling Bollywood actress filming in the midge-infested Scottish wilds; and Guy Swift, hyped-up marketing exec lost in a blue-sky tomorrow of his own devising. Three dislocated individuals seeking nodes of connectivity - a place to fit in. Yet this is the twenty-first century, and their lives are about to become unexpectedly entangled as a virus spreads, and all their futures are rewired. But will it take them further from their dreams, or closer to their hearts? An aphoristic joke, a neat turn of phrase; a joke that makes you laugh ...there's nothing Kunzru couldn't manage in prose. Thoroughly engrossing . (Literary Review). Funny, heartfelt and beautifully written, confirms Kunzru as one of the most talented writers of his generation . (Image). Very enjoyable, I couldn't put it down. Funny and wry; it is deftly plotted; its characters intimately drawn. Blissful . (Observer). Utterly affecting, a novel with devastating satirical bite . (Financial Times). Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men, and the story collection Noise. He lives in New York.

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $16.54

  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, beguiling Bollywood actress filming in the midge-infested Scottish wilds; and Guy Swift, hyped-up marketing exec lost in a blue-sky tomorrow of his own devising. Three dislocated individuals seeking nodes of connectivity - a place to fit in. Yet this is the twenty-first century, and their lives are about to become unexpectedly entangled as a virus spreads, and all their futures are rewired. But will it take them further from their dreams, or closer to their hearts? An aphoristic joke, a neat turn of phrase; a joke that makes you laugh ...there's nothing Kunzru couldn't manage in prose. Thoroughly engrossing . (Literary Review). Funny, heartfelt and beautifully written, confirms Kunzru as one of the most talented writers of his generation . (Image). Very enjoyable, I couldn't put it down. Funny and wry; it is deftly plotted; its characters intimately drawn. Blissful . (Observer). Utterly affecting, a novel with devastating satirical bite . (Financial Times). Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men, and the story collection Noise. He lives in New York.