Hari Kunzru Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Impressionist (2002)
  2. Transmission (2004)
  3. My Revolutions (2007)
  4. Gods Without Men (2011)
  5. Memory Palace (2013)
  6. White Tears (2017)
  7. Red Pill (2020)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Noise (2005)

Book Slam Books In Publication Order

  1. One for the Trouble: Book Slam Volume 1 (With: Irvine Welsh,,Patrick Ness,Jon Ronson,William Boyd,Joe Dunthorne,,Helen Oyeyemi,,,,Paul Murray) (2011)
  2. Too Much Too Young (By:David Nicholls,,Jackie Kay,Chris Cleave,Nikesh Shukla) (2012)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. One for the Trouble: Book Slam Volume 1 (2011)

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Hari Kunzru Books Overview

The Impressionist

Fathered, through circuitous circumstances, by an Englishman, Pran Nath Razdan, the boy who will become The Impressionist, was passed off by his Indian mother as the child of her husband, a wealthy man of high caste. Growing up spoiled in a life of luxury just down river from the Taj Mahal, at fifteen the news of Pran’s true parentage is revealed to his father and he is tossed out into the street a pariah and an outcast. Thus begins an extraordinary, near mythical journey of a young man who must reinvent himself to survive not once, but many times. Imprisoned by a brothel and dressed in women’s clothes, his sensuous beauty is exploited as he is made to become Rukhsana, a pawn in a game between colony and empire. To a depraved British Major he becomes Clive, an object of desire taught to be a model English schoolboy. Escaping to Bombay he begins a double life as Robert, dutiful foster child to a Scottish missionary couple and as Pretty Bobby, errand boy and sometime pimp to the tawdry women of the city’s most notorious district. But as political unrest begins to stir, Pran finds himself in the company of a doomed young Englishman an orphan named Jonathan Bridgeman. Having learned quickly that perception is a ready replacement for reality, Pran soon finds himself on a boat bound for Southampton where, with Bridgeman’s passport, he will begin again. First in London, then at Oxford, The Impressionist hones his chameleon like skills, making himself whoever and whatever he needs to be to obtain what he desires. From Victorian India to Edwardian London, from an expatriate community of black Americans in Paris to a hopeless expedition to study a lost tribe of Africa, Hari Kunzru’s unforgettable novel dazzles with its artistry and wit while it challenges with its insights into what it means to be Indian or English, black or white, and every degree that lies between them.

Transmission

In a networked world, anything can change n an instant, and sometimes everything does…
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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 na ve, 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.

My Revolutions

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. Now Hari Kunzru delivers his finest novel yet…
bringing to the angry activism of the young in the late sixties all the suspense of a spy thriller. Lisa Appignanesi, author of Unholy Loves 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 in the sixties he briefly became a terrorist protesting the Vietnam War by setting bombs around London. And then one day a ghost from his past turns up on his doorstep, forcing Chris on the run. As Chris flees, he remembers his days as an isolated youth, hopelessly in love with Anna Addison, following her as she threw aside conventionality. Chris’s rival for Anna s affections, the charismatic Sean Ward, was the leader of the radical August 14th Group. Egging one another on, the three inched closer and closer to the edge, until the events of one horrifying night forced them apart, never to see one another again. Gripping, moving, provocative, and passionate, My Revolutions brings to brilliant life both the radical idealism of the sixties and the darker currents that ran beneath it, the eddies of which still shape our history today.

Gods Without Men

A branching and multilayered novel by one of our most acclaimed young writers that centers on a couple searching for their young son, lost in the brutal, strangely powerful landscape of the Mojave Desert. Jaz and Lisa Matharu, a young couple from New York City, are plunged into a surreal public hell after their autistic son, Raj, disappears during a vacation to the California desert. But the desert is inexplicable and miraculous, and the fates of the Matharus are bound up with those of others, all converging at an odd, remote town near a rock formation called The Pinnacles; among them are a debauched British rock star, a former member of an extraterrestrial worshipping cult, and a teenage Iraqi refugee who befriends a young black Marine while playing the role of ‘Iraqi villager’ in a military simulation exercise. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, this is a novel of big ideas, grounded in emotion and centered on flesh and blood characters, and a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe.

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