New Releases by Hari Kunzru

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty and power, capital, art and those who devote their lives to creating it Once, Jay was an artist. After graduating from art school in London, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career taking shape before him. That was not to happen. Now, undocumented in the United States, having survived Covid, he lives out of his car and barely makes a living as an essential worker, delivering groceries in a wealthy area of upstate New York. One day, as Jay attempts to make a delivery at a house surrounded by acres of woods, he is confronted by his destructive past: Alice, a former lover from his art school days, and the friend she left him for. Recognizing Jay’s dire circumstances, Alice invites him to stay on their property—where an erratic gallery owner and his girlfriend are isolating as well—setting in motion a reckoning that has been decades in the making. Gripping and brilliantly orchestrated, Blue Ruin moves back and forth through time, delivering an extraordinary portrait of an artist as he reunites with his past and confronts the world he once loved and left behind.

Pran Nath è un giovane dalla pelle di perla immerso negli agi molli di un palazzo signorile nell''India di inizio Novecento; in quel momento storico, in quel luogo, il suo candore è più evidente che altrove e le sue origini meticce sono sotto gli occhi di tutti. Il padre è un inglese, la madre un''indiana appartenente a una casta elevata. I due si sono accoppiati in una grotta durante un''alluvione, in mezzo a fango rosso e alberi di cedro travolti dalle acque. Pran Nath è il frutto di una calamità naturale, una miscela fortuita, un errore. Pran Nath è maledetto. Cacciato dalla casa del padre adottivo, è costretto a girovagare per trovare qualcosa da mettere sotto ai denti. È da solo nelle vie polverose di Agra, in mezzo a bazar, cani randagi, morti lasciati a marcire per strada e ai mendicanti che da bambino era solito sprezzare. Non ha più nulla e nessuno su cui fare affidamento; ha soltanto capelli color rame, occhi screziati di verde e una pelle troppo bianca per passare inosservata. Per Pran Nath comincia dunque un peregrinaggio folle, un camaleontico mutare di nome, di nazionalità, di sesso. Un viaggio dalle corti dei nababbi ai sobborghi luridi di Bombay, dalle prestigiose università dell''Inghilterra all''Africa più remota, alla ricerca della propria identità. Con L''imitatore Hari Kunzru evoca i colori e il chiasso di un''India carnale e grottesca e ci trasporta in una chimerica spedizione oltremare, attraverso cui esploriamo tutte le vanità della metamorfosi. La storia di Pran Nath è la melodia ammaliante di un incantatore di serpenti, un romanzo picaresco e poetico, tragico e visionario, magico e realista che ci mostra quanto sia difficile prendere forma in una realtà che è null''altro che viscida apparenza.

Jaz und Lisa Matharu reisen mit ihrem autistischen Sohn in die kalifornische Mojave-Wüste, um dem New Yorker Alltag zu entfliehen und ihre Ehe zu retten. Doch bei einem Ausflug verschwindet der vierjährige Raj in der Nähe einer Felsformation, die die bizarre Landschaft prägt und seit jeher Objekt mythischer Vorstellungen ist. 1947 ließ sich an gleicher Stelle ein ehemaliger Flugzeugmechaniker namens Schmidt nieder, der in den Felsen eine natürliche Antenne sah, um Kontakt zu Außerirdischen aufzunehmen. Quellen zufolge war dort bereits 1778 dem Missionar Francesco Garcès ein Engel erschienen, in Menschengestalt, mit dem Kopf eines Löwen ... Alle Versuche der Polizei, Raj zu finden, scheitern, und es tauchen vermehrt Blogs und Tweets auf, in denen Jaz und Lisa verdächtigt werden, selbst für das Verschwinden ihres Kindes verantwortlich zu sein. Meisterhaft verknüpft Hari Kunzru eine Vielzahl von Schicksalen zu einem hellsichtigen, hochaktuellen Roman, der zugleich Gegenwartspanorama und Echokammer der Vergangenheit ist. Denn gestern wie heute ist das Aufeinanderprallen verschiedener Kulturen immer auch ein Kampf um Wahrheit und Macht.

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A PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • GQ • Time • The Economist • Slate • HuffPost • Book Riot Ghost story, murder mystery, love letter to American music--White Tears is all of this and more, a thrilling investigation of race and appropriation in society today. Seth is a shy, awkward twentysomething. Carter is more glamorous, the heir to a great American fortune. But they share an obsession with music--especially the blues. One day, Seth discovers that he''s accidentally recorded an unknown blues singer in a park. Carter puts the file online, claiming it''s a 1920s recording by a made-up musician named Charlie Shaw. But when a music collector tells them that their recording is genuine--that there really was a singer named Charlie Shaw--the two white boys, along with Carter''s sister, find themselves in over their heads, delving deeper and deeper into America''s dark, vengeful heart. White Tears is a literary thriller and a meditation on art--who owns it, who can consume it, and who profits from it.

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 maladroit. Ils forment un tandem uni par une passion commune, la musique, qu’ils écoutent dans leur studio. Seth, obsédé par le son, enregistre par hasard un chanteur de blues inconnu dans Washington Square. Carter, enthousiasmé par la mélodie, l’envoie sur Internet, prétendant que c’est un disque de blues des années 20, un vinyle perdu depuis longtemps, œuvre d’un musicien obscur, Charlie Shaw. Lorsqu’un vieux collectionneur les contacte pour leur dire que leur faux musicien de blues a réellement existé, Seth accompagné par Leonie, la sœur de Carter, partent dans le Mississipi sur les traces de ce personnage. « Captivant, ce roman élucide l’histoire inique de l’appropriation par les Blancs de la culture noire. » The Washington Post Traduit de l’anglais par Marie-Hélène Dumas

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Original Selection The Wall Street businessman is about to become very wealthy—serious money, you understand—but while flying from New York to Silicon Valley to officially sell his startup, he has a very damaging, very disturbing, possibly destiny-altering dream. In this new story from Hari Kunzru, the explosive, wildly inventive, stunningly ambitious author of the acclaimed novel Gods Without Men, a titan of industry mustn’t forget that he was a boy once; and an English public school past can continue to haunt far after graduation. “Ink” is a cautionary tale rebooted for the startup age. An eBook short.

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely known as the greatest Russian writers of science fiction, and their 1964 novel Hard to Be a God is considered one of the greatest of their works. It tells the story of Don Rumata, who is sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to observe and to influence, but never to directly interfere. Masquerading as an arrogant nobleman, a dueler and a brawler, Don Rumata is never defeated but can never kill. With his doubt and compassion, and his deep love for a local girl named Kira, Rumata wants to save the kingdom from the machinations of Don Reba, the First Minister to the king. But given his orders, what role can he play? Hard to Be a God has inspired a computer role-playing game and two movies, including Aleksei German''s long-awaited swan song. Yet until now the only English version (out of print for over thirty years) was based on a German translation, and was full of errors, infelicities, and misunderstandings. This new edition—translated by Olena Bormashenko, whose translation of the authors'' Roadside Picnic has received widespread acclaim, and supplemented with a new foreword by Hari Kunzru and an afterword by Boris Strugatsky, both of which supply much-needed context—reintroduces one of the most profound Soviet-era novels to an eager audience.

"Commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Memory Palace forms the basis for an innovative exhibition in partnership with Sky Arts Ignition that explores the relationship between the written word and its visual interpretation. This volume includes preliminary drawings by 20 leading typographers, illustrators and graphic designers whose work features in the exhibition, alongside a contextual essay by the curators, Laurie Britton Newell and Ligaya Salazar, and a graphic story by Robert Hunter"--Printed wrapper on bottom board.

Por el ganador de los premios Betty Trask, Somerset Maugham y British Book Award, elegido por Granta y Lire como uno de los escritores más prometedores de la actualidad, cuya obra ha sido traducida a veintiún idiomas. Un niño de cuatro años desaparece y sus padres se ven envueltos en una mediática caza de brujas. Una estrella del rock británica se esconde en un destartalado motel. Una refugiada iraquí es convertida en actriz en un pueblo de mentira creado por el ejército estadounidense. Un místico jesuita español del siglo XVIII da muestras de excesiva independencia... Un puñado de vidas convergen alrededor de una primigenia formación rocosa en el desierto de Mojave, en California: allí el presente se conecta con el pasado y la tierra con el cielo, subvirtiendo las reglas de dioses y hombres. Dioses sinhombres ha sido elegido uno de los mejores 100 libros de 2012 por The New York Times . La crítica ha dicho: «Extraordinaria, innovadora. Una revelación. Tiene algo de Vonnegut, Pynchon o Wolfe. Realmente estimulante... Una aventura contracultural que abre la mente.» The Guardian «La gran novela de Kunzru, uno de los novelistas actuales más importantes... Esta odisea americana aporta una nueva nota en su preocupación sobre la identidad humana.» The Independent «Una obra maestra.» Publishers Weekly «Apasionada, inteligente y profunda... Necesitamos más libros como éste.» Scotland on Sunday «Una de las mejores novelas del año... Épica en alcance y ambición... Una obra de la que se hablará en todas partes.» The Daily Telegraph «La contagiosa electricidad de la prosa de Kunzru y la agilidad de su trama son arrasadoras.» The New Yorker «A los pilares de laliteratura trans como Las horas de Michael Cunningham y El atlas de las nubes de David Mitchell podemos añadir Dioses sin hombres, la magnífica e inteligente novela de Hari Kunzru.» The New York Times Book Review «Kunzru ya se ha confirmado como uno de los novelistas más hábiles y observadores. En Dioses sin hombres ha aceleradosu marcha aún más, creando una ficción madura, intrincadamente equilibrada, que resulta ser siempre apasionante y entretenida.» The Literary Review «Rico en detalles, eléctricamente entretenido, un retrato oscuro de la moral moderna.» GQ «Esta maravillosa novela de Hari Kunzru se vale de diversas culturas para especular acerca de la naturaleza de la realidad y la religión, la magia y el misterio.» Kirkus Reviews « Diosessin hombres es genial, una narración tan vasta como el lienzo sobre el cual está escrita.» The Washington Post «Una divertida y hermosa novela, sorpresivamente conmovedora, que lanza grandes preguntas.» Psychologies Magazine

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 commandos américains. Dawn, elle, désormais seule dans son motel, traîne le souvenir doux-amer de la communauté hippie qui l’a vue grandir... Dans ce même espace, un enfant disparaît, projetant ses parents dans un enfer de douleur et de culpabilité. Mais le désert est par nature inexplicable et miraculeux, et voici que le destin de Raj et de tous les autres converge vers une zone étrange éloignée de tout, au pied d’une spectaculaire formation rocheuse : les Pinnacles, terrain propice aux plus folles aspirations. Là retentissent comme un écho les histoires de ceux qui avant eux se sont aventurés dans ces paysages puissants, hostiles, imprégnés de mystère. Ce roman total, aux surprenantes strates narratives, est de ces lectures qui nous habitent et nous changent. Dieu sans les hommes, c’est notre quête du sens de l’existence dans un univers chaotique et aléatoire. Ici, dans le silence et l’absence, comment faire face à l’indicible ? Traduit de l''anglais par Claude et Jean Demanuelli

In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men. —Honoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, 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, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed—but not unchanged—the fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others, echoing the stories of all those who have traveled before them. Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape-shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh-and-blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, it is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.

O ciborgue nos força a pensar não em termos de “sujeitos”, de átomos ou de indivíduos, mas em termos de fluxos e intensidades. O mundo não seria constituído, então, de unidades (“sujeitos”) de onde partiriam as ações sobre outras unidades, mas, inversamente, de correntes e circuitos que encontram aquelas unidades em sua passagem. Integre-se, pois, à corrente. Plugue-se. A uma tomada. Ou a uma máquina. Ou a outro humano. Ou a um ciborgue. Eletrifique-se. O humano se dissolve como unidade. É só eletricidade. Tá ligado?

¿Qué sucede cuando el pasado revolucionario de un hombre irrumpe en su ordenado presente? 1968. Chris Carver acaba de ser arrestado en una violenta revuelta en Londres. Treinta años después, ha olvidado por qué quería hacer una revolución. El día antes de su cincuenta cumpleaños, su tranquila y acomodada vida va a derrumbarse, pero quizá no importe. Incisiva y provocadora, Mis revoluciones es una novela sobre la doble identidad, sobre los ideales, deseos y creencias y en qué se transforman con el paso del tiempo. Hari Kunzru vuelve a sorprendernos con un libro que no nos dejará indiferentes. « Mis revoluciones es un claro recordatorio sobre cómo el pasado insiste en volver al presente. Hari Kunzru escribe con una prosa elegante, clara y limpia, y su presentación de las realidades políticas es preocupantemente real.» JOHN BANVILLE «Mis revoluciones es claramente el resultado de una extensa investigación, combinada con una maestría que permite a Kunzru ver a sus protagonistas simultáneamente como nobles y absurdos.» The Independent «Es el respeto con el que Kunzru trata los anhelos de sus personajes lo que hace que Mis revoluciones se sienta como una elegía por su época y, más aún, como una especie de réquiem por nosotros mismos.» Herald Tribune «En su espíritu, Mis revoluciones es una pesquisa en el interior de la metafísica de la rebelión, una novela que encuadra el radicalismo como un camino espiritual.» Los Angeles Times «Nunca hubo ninguna duda sobre el talento narrativo de Hari Kunzru, pero en este oportuno nuevo libro, el ciudadano en sí mismo da un paso adelante para permanecer al lado del narrador.» NADEEN ASLAM «Kunzru tiene el arte de revisitar de manera eficaz el thriller anglosajón. El desenlace es irónico, pragmático y pleno de humor.» Le Monde Littéraire

“Powerful” (The New Yorker), “extraordinary” (The New York Times Book Review), and “brilliant” (Entertainment Weekly)—you won’t be able to put down this novel by the award-winning bestselling author of White Tears and Blue Ruin Critics have compared him to Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, Tom Wolfe, and Don DeLillo. Granta dubbed him “one of the twenty best fiction writers under forty.” In My Revolutions, Hari Kunzru delivers his best novel yet. Chris Carver is living a lie. His wife, their teenage daughter, and everyone in their circle know him as Michael Frame, suburban dad. They have no idea that as a radical student during the sixties, he briefly became a terrorist, protesting the Vietnam War by setting off bombs. Until one day a ghost from his past turns up on his doorstep, forcing Chris on the run.

The award-winning writer of White Tears and Blue Ruin takes an ultra-contemporary turn with the story of an Indian computer programmer whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer. Lonely and naïve, Arjun spends his days as a lowly assistant virus-tester, pining away for his free-spirited colleague, Christine. Arjun gets laid off like so many of his Silicon Valley peers, and 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.

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 Transmission.

Arjun Mehta a deux passions : l''informatique et une jeune star de Bollywood, Leela Zahir. Pour accomplir son rêve de réussite et d''amour, il commence par s''installer au paradis technologique de la Silicon Valley. Hélas, l''entreprise qui vient de l''engager ne tarde pas à le licencier et l''image du mythe américain s''écroule devant lui. Décidé à se venger, il met au point un virus et ne trouve rien de mieux que de le baptiser Leela. Mais la situation lui échappe. Voilà sa créature propagée dans le monde entier et Arjun poursuivi par le FBI. S''ensuit une série d''imbroglios désopilants d''où il ressort qu''il n''est pas recommandé de confondre virus informatique et vedette de l''écran. Hari Kunzru a réussi là un subtil chef-d''œuvre d''humour et d''excentricité.

An Epic Story Of A Boy S Search For Identity In A World Which Seems To Have No Place For Him. At The Turn Of The Century In A Remote Corner Of India, An English Civil Servant And A Reluctant Hindu Bride Cross Paths During A Cataclysmic Rainstorm. Nine Months Later A Boy Is Born& Pran Nath S Startling Whiteness Is Regarded As A Sign Of Nobility Till His True Parentage Is Revealed. Ejected From His Father S House, He Begins A Haphazard Journey Through The Bizarre Dark Side Of The British Empire. As He Travels Across The World, From Bombay To London, From A Mouldering Norfolk Public School To Oxford And Paris, Everyone Sees Him With A Different Eye. The Impressionist Is A Comic Saga About History, Identity And Home. It Is The Epochal Debut Of An Exceptional Writer.