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  {musicalbear ~ books} review > fiction > hari kunzru > transmission   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
hari kunzru has an almost unbearably hip profile, following the success generated by his award-winning debut the impressionist.
it’s sad that kunzru is morphing into yet another lifestyle accessory for the next wave of hoxbridge loft conversions.
stylistically, kunzru is an acolyte of martin amis, and the writing is always well-sculpted and smoothed.
www.musicalbear.co.uk /books/review/transmission_by_hari_kunzru_fiction   (677 words)

  
 Hari Kunzru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hari Kunzru is the British author of mixed English and Kashmiri Hindu ancestry of The Impressionist and Transmission.
He was born in 1969, and grew up in Essex.
In 2003, [Hari Kunzru] [1] was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hari_Kunzru   (193 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - THE IMPRESSIONIST by Hari Kunzru
Kunzru's novel is set at a historical crossroads, pitting brazen British pride against the burgeoning independence movement in India and serving as a touchstone for the protagonist's complex racial and ethnic identity.
Kunzru's embroidered prose, urbane wit, and masterful storytelling captivate the reader and exhibit a sophistication not usually found in a debut.
Kunzru is an immensely talented writer, spinning a story with rich language and exotic locales, and this noteworthy debut secures his place among the UK's best new writers.
www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0452283973.asp   (665 words)

  
 Transmission - Hari Kunzru
Kunzru has been vocal in his public condemnation of media treatment of asylum seekers, and Transmission is a brilliant dramatisation of those same concerns.
Kunzru doesn't do emotion very well, and Leela and her story-line are by far the weakest parts of the book.
Kunzru works his message a bit too hard: the many border-crossings and the convenient cross-cultural conflicts can seem too artificial and forced, the computer virus a tenuous connexion.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/popgb/kunzruh.htm   (1853 words)

  
 Transmission by Hari Kunzru: Reviews
Transmission, Hari Kunzru's 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.
Kunzru proves again that he is a wry and talented voice who provides a nuanced and painfully brutal perception of modern life in a global economy.
Kunzru is an elegant and thoughtful writer, able to give his 21st-century fable a patina of 19th-century literary polish.
www.metacritic.com /books/authors/kunzruhari/transmission   (702 words)

  
 BookPage Interview March 2002: Hari Kunzru
Kunzru has questions about the whole idea of what it means to be a person.
Kunzru's method for exploring such a heady set of ideas is unexpected, to say the least.
For Kunzru there seems to be something of a personal, poignant edge to his interest in such moments.
www.bookpage.com /0204bp/hari_kunzru.html   (1055 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Transmission by Hari Kunzru
When Hari Kunzru's eagerly awaited first novel, The Impressionist, was published, it was lauded and celebrated worldwide.
In that rich, wry debut, Kunzru probed the realms of culture and identity through a savvy boy's attempts to reconcile the roles of his British father and his passionate Indian mother.
Kunzru's first novel, The Impressionist, was received enthusiastically (it was shortlisted for numerous awards, and won quite a few others, including the Somerset Maugham Award), and this follow-up will not disappoint fans of his stirring social commentary.
www.powells.com /biblio/0452286514   (674 words)

  
 Bookslut | The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
And although it's early in his career, Hari Kunzru makes a good case that he should be added to that list.
His mother's attempt to hide his biracial heritage turns out to be fruitless, so Pran becomes the un-Pran, passing as a hundred percent white, going through a series of false identities that lead him to both whorehouses and prep schools, trying desperately to concoct a new life at each turn.
Kunzru seems less enchanted by magical realism than Rushdie, putting him somewhere in the Paul Bowles school of level-headed literary exploration.
www.bookslut.com /fiction/2002_08_000051.php   (474 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Transmission   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Transmission is Hari Kunzru's second novel and, in a similar vein to Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, the title is instructive; it's figuratively and literally, the book's pulsing leitmotif.
As the novel progresses, Kunzru becomes increasingly interested in Swift's private and business life to the extent that this plotline is arguably elevated to central stage on equal terms with that involving Arjun.
Kunzru's distaste for American excess provides much of the momentum for the story, but his targets are obvious ones, and consequently one's interest dissipates.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0241141702   (1192 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Author snubs prize in asylum row
Mr Kunzru turned down the John Llewellyn Rhys award for his novel The Impressionist, objecting to the Mail on Sunday's backing for the prize.
Hari Kunzru's debut novel beat four shortlisted books to the prize, but the 33-year-old did not attend the award ceremony at London's Reform Club on Thursday.
Mr Kunzru has already won the Betty Trask and Somerset Maugham awards, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book and Whitbread prizes.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/3226946.stm   (408 words)

  
 Hari Kunzru: A question of identity - Sify.com
Hari Kunzru was born in 1969 in Woodford Green, at the end of the Central Line on the London/Essex border.
Kunzru attended Bancroft School and remembers it as being, "an odd sort of place." He soon left Essex when he was 18 and studied English Literature at Wadham, one of the strong left-wing colleges in Oxford.
Kunzru gradually started writing about music and travel - he was also named the 'Observer Young Travel Writer of the Year' in 1999.
sify.com /news/othernews/fullstory.php?id=13504764   (406 words)

  
 The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru | PopMatters Book Review
In one of his interviews, Hari Kunzru said that he is bored with all his reviews starting off with the whopping advance he received for his debut novel, The Impressionist and whether the book is worth all the hype it got.
Kunzru is trendy and hybrid himself (father Indian-Kashmiri, mother English) considering the firm grip that Indian writers have over the literary market.
Kunzru is more comfortable in the English parts than the Indian ones in that the English character are better fleshed out than the flat one-dimensional Indian characters.
www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/i/impressionist.shtml   (1343 words)

  
 Hari Kunzru - enCompass Culture
Hari Kunzru was born in 1969, has published two novels, and was named on Granta's 2003 list of Britain's Twenty Best Young British Novelists.
HK: I don't think it's what all writing should be about, but I suppose I am interested in how people are shaped by their environments and their contexts, and what happens when that context changes.
Sandhya Rao, India: Hari Kunzru is largely an expat writer, in that he writes about India or an Indian character of his memories.
encompassculture.com /readerinresidence/authors/harikunzru/?...   (1480 words)

  
 Transmission by Hari Kunzru - review
Kunzru satirizes all aspects of American culture as Arjun makes his way in America.
The three plot lines come together in a clever conclusion which resembles one of the Bollywood films that Arjun so enjoys, and allows Kunzru to satirize the numerous conspiracy theories to which we are prone.
Hari Kunzru was born in 1969 and grew up in Essex.
mostlyfiction.com /humor/kunzru.htm   (955 words)

  
 Hari Kunzru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hari Kunzru is the British author of The Impressionist and Transmission.He won the Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award for The Impressionist.
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 DesiJournal.com - The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
Kunzru has managed to create a colorful parade of characters all stemming from a single source.
And it is Kunzru’s razor-sharp writing style that keeps you reading even long after you have figured out the basic premise of the story.
Hari Kunzru’s debut is definitely a very intelligent read.
www.desijournal.com /book.asp?ArticleId=4   (574 words)

  
 Hari Kunzru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hari Kunzru was born in 1969 and lives in London.
He studied at Oxford and Warwick Universities, and is a regular contributor to many UK and international publications, writing about technology, cultural change, electronic music and art.
Kunzru is working on his second novel, Transmission, to be published by Penguin in 2003.
www.literature-awards.com /authors/hari_kunzru.htm   (200 words)

  
 Hari Kunzru - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
Hari Kunzru was born in 1969 and lives in south-east London.
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.
Described by the Observer as 'The most eagerly awaited British debut of 2002' Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist is an epic tale of adventure and discovery.
www.greatthamesread.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000054681,00.html   (1108 words)

  
 A Conversation with Hari Kunzru, author of The Impressionist, author interviews, book reviews and reading group ...
Born in London and raised in Essex, Hari Kunzru is a freelance journalist and editor living in London.
The book itself was critically well received despite the huge amount of attention given to the marketing and hype.
Hari Kunzru was recently visiting New Zealand where he agreed to have a chat with book-club.co.nz.
www.book-club.co.nz /features/harikunzru.htm   (3174 words)

  
 ReadingGroupGuides.com - Transmission by Hari Kunzru
Hari Kunzru is a freelance journalist and editor who has written for numerous international publications, including The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The Economist, and Wired.
In 1999, the Observer named him "Young Travel Writer of the Year." He lives in London, where he is completing work on his second novel.
Hari Kunzru made the The Granta list for 2003.
www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/transmission2.asp   (58 words)

  
 Transmission - Hari Kunzru - Penguin UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Transmission - Hari Kunzru - Penguin UK home
Hari Kunzru's new novel is a heady mix of London, Bollywood and Silicon Valley.
Taking in three continents and following the lives of Guy, Arjun and Leela as they make their way in the real world, Transmission is a brilliant and funny take on life at the click of a mouse.
www.greatthamesread.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0141008296,00.html   (1444 words)

  
 Salon.com Books | "The Impressionist" by Hari Kunzru
With "The Impressionist," British writer Hari Kunzru errs on the side of storytelling, which probably explains why this, his first novel, commanded a record advance in England last year.
The weather in London leads him to understand "for the first time the English word 'cozy', the need their climate instills in them to pad their blue-veined bodies with layers of horsehair and mahogany, aspidistras and antimacassars, history, tradition and share certificates.
Being British, he decides, is primarily a matter of insulation." While the Indian sections of "The Impressionist" are more or less caricatured, Kunzru (who grew up in Britain) has nailed the reflexive provinciality and entitlement of the English to the wall.
www.salon.com /books/review/2002/04/26/kunzru   (611 words)

  
 Hari Kunzru
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Hari Kunzru is a freelance journalist and editor living in London.
His second novel, Transmission ( 2004), centres on Arjun Mehta, a computer programmer, who lands a new job in America's Silicon Valley, only to find things do not turn out as he imagines.
www.contemporarywriters.com /authors?p=auth03B5O073112634971   (332 words)

  
 Books About Bodies - Anomalies and Specimens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Using methods of sympathetic imagination they crafted pieces inspired by the objects that were then collected in this illustrated volume as a companion to the catalog prepared for an exhibition in the British Museum.
So we have "Milk" by Peter Blegvad describing an exhibition that never took place and "The Collected" by Hari Kunzru in which the narrator relates in technical detail how his head was shrunken by the Shuar Indians.
Kunzru also writes from the point of view of a skull used to illustrate phrenological concepts, a skull disparaging of its fellow specimens: "The Oriental monk they made into a rather tasteless cup.
www.booksaboutbodies.com /anomalies.htm   (2015 words)

  
 Read Review on Transmission - Hari Kunzru by Altrasonic - MouthShut.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He also manages to be kidnapped, robbed and deported from a country.
I liked the way Hari Kunzru has managed to keep the story simple.
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www.mouthshut.com /review/Transmission_-_Hari_Kunzru-71886-1.html   (555 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Review | Hari Kunzru
This novelist and TV presenter was born in London in 1969 and studied English at Oxford before obtaining an MA in philosophy and literature from Warwick University.
Currently a contributing editor at "Mute" magazine and music editor of "Wallpaper", Hari has written for publications ranging from "London Review of Books" to "iD" and presented "The Lounge" on Sky TV at the end of the 1990s.
His first novel "The Impressionist", described as "Tom Jones" meets "Midnight's Children", was the subject of a transatlantic bidding war and was published in April 2002 in the UK.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/3129141.stm   (123 words)

  
 HoustonChronicle.com - 'Transmission' by Hari Kunzru
Kunzru himself is an ironic "transmittor" because an author can only put forth a book; he cannot control the multiplicity of interpretations of it.
Kunzru belongs to a species of new writers like David Foster Wallace whose clever sentences flow madcap through the sluices.
The London-based Kunzru resolves everyone's story in the last chapter, like a schoolboy told to tidy up and be quick about it.
www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/books/reviews/2733005   (2070 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | News | I am one of Them
For that I am grateful, as I am to my agent, Jonny Geller, who bravely delivered my statement to what I can only imagine was an icy reception at the Reform Club.
· Hari Kunzru is the author of The Impressionist.
He asked the Mail to donate his £5,000 award to the Refugee Council.
books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,1090959,00.html   (873 words)

  
 Transmission - Hari Kunzru - Penguin Group (USA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
An exuberant novel of love and lunacy, immigration and immunity, from England's dazzling new talent who was hailed as "a modern-day Kipling" for his award-winning debut novel.
Lonely and naïve, Arjun bides his time as an assistant virus tester, pining for a free-loving looker named Christine and building digital creatures in a feeble attempt to enhance his job security.
Maybe you got a copy in your in-box, sent from an address you didn’t recognize; an innocuous two-line e-mail with an attachment.
www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0525947604,00.html   (5307 words)

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