Hari Kunzru

A stunning, audacious new thriller... It will shock you, horrify you, unsettle you, and that's exactly the point. As brave as it is brutal, it lets nothing and nobody off the hook' NPR'A book that everyone should be reading right now' TIME New Yorkers Carter and Seth chop up old music to make it new again, ripping off black culture to line white pockets. They are young, hungry and talented. But one day they stumble on an old blues song - an undiscovered gem just waiting to be found - and land themselves in a heap of trouble.Seeking answers, Seth travels deep into the heart of the old South, accompanied by Carter's bewitching sister Leonie. But this is America, where ghosts lie uneasy in shallow graves and tugging one loose thread can unravel a bloody history of injustice. And the closer Seth gets to the haunting truth, the more he feels pursued . . .White Tears is a nail-biting ride through the terrifying spectre of America's past. It's about black lives and white privilege and the music that runs through the country's veins like blood.

Mixing the public with the personal, concocting a volatile stew of politics, idealism, violence, isolation, and unrequited love, "My Revolutions" asks the question: What turns a radical into a terror

Penguin Celebrations: Unique voices, enthralling stories and quite simply the best books of their kind to be published in recent years. There are 36 to collect.

Its the day before Mike Frames fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesnt matter, because its not his life in the first place. He has a past that his partner Miranda and step-daughter Sam know nothing about, lived under another name amidst the turbulence of the revolutionary armed struggle of the 1970s.

A feverish new tale from the bestselling author of The Impressionist: two ambitious young musicians are drawn into a dark underworld, haunted by the ghosts of a repressive past Two twenty-something New Yorkers: Seth, awkward and shy, and Carter, the trust fund hipster. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Rising fast on the New York producing scene, they stumble across an old blues song long forgotten by history -- and everything starts to unravel. Carter is drawn far down a path that allows no return, and Seth has no choice but to follow his friend into the darkness. Trapped in a game they don't understand, Hari Kunzru's characters move unsteadily across the chessboard, caught between black and white, performer and audience, righteous and forsaken. But we have been here before, oh so many times over, and the game always ends the same way ...Electrifying, subversive and wildly original, White Tears is a ghost story and a love story, a story about lost innocence and historical guilt. This unmissable novel penetrates the heart of a nation's darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge and exploitation, and holding a mirror up to the true nature of America today.

Un écrivain américain se rend en résidence dans une prestigieuse institution artistique de la banlieue de Berlin où il croit pouvoir se consacrer sereinement à l’écriture. Mais très vite, une angoiss

The book I wish I'd written? Whatever Hari Kunzru is publishing next' Aravind Adiga 'Astonishing, absorbing, terrifying. Immensely good.' Philip Pullman''Red Pill stands as a final blast of sanity against this new, deranged reality. It is a literary masterpiece for a barbaric new world rapidly running out of room for literary masterpieces.' The Spectator '[A] deeply intelligent and artfully constructed novel.' Financial TimesFrom the author of White Tears comes a breathtaking, state-of-the-world novel about one man's struggle to defend his values and create a reality free from the shadows of the past.'From now on when you see something, you're seeing it because I want you to see it. When you think of something, it'll be because I want you to think about it...' And with those words, the obsession begins. A writer has left his family in Brooklyn for a three month residency at the Deuter Centre in Berlin, hoping for undisturbed days devoted to artistic absorption.When nothing goes according to plan, he finds himself holed up in his room watching Blue Lives, a violent cop show with a bleak and merciless worldview. One night at a party he meets Anton, the charismatic creator of the show, and strikes up a conversation. It is a conversation that leads him on a journey into the heart of moral darkness.A conversation thatthreatens to destroy everything he holds most dear, including his own mind. Red Pill is a novel about the alt-right, online culture, creativity, sanity and history. It tells the story of the 21st century through the prism of the centuries that preceded it, showing how the darkest chapters of our past haunt our present.More than anything, though, this is a novel about love and how it can endure in a world where everything else seems to have lost all meaning. Praise for White Tears 'Exquisitely attuned' Washington Post 'Electrifying, subversive and wildly original' TheNew Yorker 'A book that everyone should be reading right now' TIME Magazine 'Haunting, doom-drenched, genuinely and viscerally disturbing...' The Independent

Après avoir participé à la mission Hiroshima, Schmidt tente de fuir les horreurs de la guerre. Il s’installe dans un paysage aride et lunaire à deux heures de Las Vegas. Persuadé qu’il peut sauver l’

In the Californian desert... A four-year-old boy goes missing. A British rock star goes quietly mad. An alien-worshipping cult is born. An Iraqi teenager takes part in a war game. In a remote town, near a rock formation known as The Pinnacles, lives intertwine, stories echo, and the universal search for meaning and connection continues.

En la era informática, todo es posible... Especialmente el caos... Y, en este caso, el caos se llama Leila... Un virus informático con forma de bailarina oriental, que se extiende como una plaga sin que su timido creador pueda evitarlo... Un relato que mezcla inmigracion y tecnologia y que se convierte en una divertida satira del mundo en que vivimos...

A young man born in India and named Pran reinvents himself several times, first as Robert, the adopted son of a Scots missionary couple; then as "Pretty Bobby" by the whores with whom he consorts; then as "Jonathan," an Englishman whose identity he usurps; and finally as an anthropologist (and much more) in Africa.

This collection of stories focuses on technology, the dot-com phenomenon and the wired generation - subjects which Kunzru knows from the inside out and which he explores in his highly acclaimed novel

Hari Kunzru's second novel is a satirical tale of a young man's journey from India to California, where he hopes to work as a computer programmer. Arjun Mehta arrives in California jobless but hopeful, and, though he survives (barely) a bad case of culture shock, he finally finds a job but is laid off much too. Broke and desperate, Arjun is considering returning home in disgrace, when he hits on a scheme to save himself: he injects a computer virus into the company's system, hoping to be reinstated when he comes up with a fix. But the virus (which bears the image of his adored Bollywood star Leela Zahir) gets out of control.... A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.

The book I wish Id written? Whatever Hari Kunzru is publishing next Aravind Adiga Astonishing, absorbing, terrifying. Immensely good. Philip PullmanRed Pill stands as a final blast of sanity against this new, deranged reality. It is a literary masterpiece for a barbaric new world rapidly running out of room for literary masterpieces. The Spectator[A] deeply intelligent and artfully constructed novel. Financial TimesFrom the author of White Tears comes a breathtaking, state-of-the-world novel about one mans struggle to defend his values and create a reality free from the shadows of the past. From now on when you see something, youre seeing it because I want you to see it. When you think of something, itll be because I want you to think about it And with those words, the obsession begins. A writer has left his family in Brooklyn for a three month residency at the Deuter Centre in Berlin, hoping for undisturbed days devoted to artistic absorption. When nothing goes according to plan, he finds himself holed up in his room watching Blue Lives, a violent cop show with a bleak and merciless worldview. One night at a party he meets Anton, the charismatic creator of the show, and strikes up a conversation. It is a conversation that leads him on a journey into the heart of moral darkness. A conversation thatthreatens to destroy everything he holds most dear, including his own mind. Red Pill is a novel about the alt-right, online culture, creativity, sanity and history. It tells the story of the 21st century through the prism of the centuries that preceded it, showing how the darkest chapters of our past haunt our present. More than anything, though, this is a novel about love and how it can endure in a world where everything else seems to have lost all meaning.Praise for White Tears Exquisitely attuned Washington Post Electrifying, subversive and wildly original TheNew YorkerA book that everyone should be reading right now TIME Magazine Haunting, doom-drenched, genuinely and viscerally disturbing... The Independent

Carter et Seth, âgés d’une vingtaine d’années, appartiennent a des mondes opposés. Le premier est l’héritier d’une grande fortune américaine, l’autre est un misfit social sans le sou, timide et malad

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, power, and capitals influence on art and those who devote their lives to creating it.Blue Ruin is bracingly intelligent and often just plain beautiful. Its a reminder that fiction, at its best, is a place to encounter new experiences and dwell in big ideas. Kunzru is known for ambitious novels that bring politics to rich, imaginative life; Blue Ruin shows him at the top of his game. Sandra Newman, Guardian Book of the DayI read everything Hari Kunzru writes, for my highest pleasure and my deepest sustenance. Rachel KushnerGenuinely thrilling...both a sharp dissection of the oily inner workings of the art world, and a compelling portrait of one mans desperate attempt to escape complicity in the capitalist machine. Financial Times Once Jay was tipped for greatness, a rising star of the London art scene. Now, he lives out of his car and earns money delivery groceries to the wealthy of upstate New York, while all around a terrible pandemic rages. When Jay arrives at a house set in an enormous acreage of woodland, he is shocked to see somebody he thought forever lost to him. Standing on the porch is Alice, a lover from his art school days. Their relationship was tumultuous and destructive, ultimately ending when she left him for his best friend and fellow artist Rob. Alice and Rob have achieved the riches and success for which Jay once seemed destined. Ashamed and debilitated by the virus that has ravaged his body, Jay hopes she wont recognise him behind his dirty surgical mask. When she does, however, she invites him to recover on the property, setting in motion a reckoning decades in the making. Gripping and brilliantly orchestrated, Blue Ruin moves back and forth through time to deliver an extraordinary portrait of an artist as he reunites with his past and confronts the world he once loved and left behind.Kunzrus brilliance is his ability to fold vertiginous questions [...] into his storytelling. In its unnerving depiction of [...] uneasy relationships, Blue Ruin not only keeps pace with White Tears and Red Pill, but also confirms his status as a master choreographer of the present moments creeping anxiety. Literary Review [Blue Ruin] promises to be harrowing and darkly funny. Kunzru has a knack for the nightmarish present, and few things feel more nightmarish than a forced confrontation with the past in the early stages of the pandemic. Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 Kunzrus [Blue Ruin] is a triumph of beauty and a true ode to the artist. Oprah Daily, Most Anticipated Books of 2024 Kunzru takes on the excessive and rapacious tendencies of the art world in his dazzling latest . . . [Blue Ruin] is immensely satisfying. Publishers Weekly A lively, ever-intensifying story of race, immigration, work, and what it means to earn a living . . . [Blue Ruin is] a darkly ironic tale of two bubblesan art world divorced from economic reality and a Covid era that segregated us from society . . . A dark, smart, provocative tale of the perils of art making. Kirkus Exquisite writing and keen insights into class te...

Dans le vide immense et brutal du désert de Mojave, Nicky, une rock star en fuite, cherche sa rémission. Laila, jeune Irakienne réfugiée, joue à la guerre dans une reconstitution orchestrée par les c