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White Tears

A novel

By: Hari Kunzru

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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.

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1101973218

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Red Pill

A novel

By: Hari Kunzru

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Red Pill

A novel

By: Hari Kunzru

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth from the widely acclaimed author of White Tears After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he takes long walks and binge-watches Blue Lives, a violent cop show that becomes weirdly compelling in its bleak, Darwinian view of life. He soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all. Wannsee is full of ghosts: Across the lake, the narrator can see the villa where the Nazis planned the Final Solution, and in his walks he passes the grave of the Romantic writer Heinrich von Kleist, who killed himself after deciding that “no happiness was possible here on earth.” At a party, he meets the charismatic Anton, creator of Blue Lives, and the narrator begins to believe that the two of them are engaged in a cosmic battle. Anton is “red-pilling” his viewers—turning them toward an ugly, alt-rightish worldview, he thinks, as he starts to wonder if he is losing his mind.

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1101973226

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Gods Without Men

By: Hari Kunzru

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Gods Without Men

By: Hari Kunzru

Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power. Before Raj reappears— inexplicably unharmed, but not unchanged—the fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others, both past and present, who have traveled through this odd, remote town in the shadow of a mysterious rock formation known as the Pinnacles. Among them are an 18th-century Spanish missionary, a former WWII aviation engineer turned desert-cult messiah, and an incognito rock star on the run. As their stories collide and build upon one another, Gods Without Men becomes a heartfelt exploration of the search for meaning in a chaotic universe.

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Vintage

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0307946975

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Blue Ruin

A novel

By: Hari Kunzru

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Blue Ruin

A novel

By: Hari Kunzru

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.

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Knopf

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0593801385

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The Impressionist

By: Hari Kunzru

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The Impressionist

By: Hari Kunzru

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.

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Penguin Books India

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0143029762

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My Revolutions

A Novel

By: Hari Kunzru

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My Revolutions

A Novel

By: Hari Kunzru

“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.

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1101213884

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Transmission

By: Hari Kunzru

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Transmission

By: Hari Kunzru

There�s a message in your inbox. Then, a few moments later, your computer crashes. Leela Zahir, Bollywood actress and temperamental star, is being catapulted from the fringes of fame into a million inboxes. Arjun Mehta, computer geek, looks up from his screen to find that he does, after all, have a role to play in the world. Guy Swift, marketing executive with his own agency, a beautiful girlfriend and a handle on modern life, is losing his grip. In this age of instant worldwide communication, anything can happen and anything will� 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.

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0141008296

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Ink

By: Hari Kunzru

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Ink

By: Hari Kunzru

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.

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1101970448

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Blue Ruin

By: Hari Kunzru

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Blue Ruin

By: Hari Kunzru

It's the 1990's, and Jay is an artist tipped for greatness. Shortly after graduating from his London art school, a promising career is already taking shape before him. Despite the brutal end of his intense relationship with Alice, his great love, he's destined to make his mark on the world as one of the most brilliant young creatives of the last century. Everyone is going to remember his name. It's 2020, and Jay lives out of his car, working as a delivery driver in wealthy upstate New York. Sick and undocumented, Jay arrives at an enormous mansion and collapses from exhaustion --- right at the feet of Alice, whom he had hoped he would never see again. Twenty years on, and while Jay teeters on the edge, she's married the man she left him for; Jay's former best friend and fellow artist, Rob. Ashamed, Jay hopes she won't recognize him behind his dirty surgical mask, but when she does, she invites him to recover on the property, setting the stage for a devastating reckoning that's been 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. This is a novel suffused with tension and melancholy; an ode to an iconic art scene from an author at the height of his powers.

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Simon and Schuster

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1398528927

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Hard to Be a God

By: Arkady Strugatsky,Boris Strugatsky,Hari Kunzru,Olena Bormashenko

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Hard to Be a God

By: Arkady Strugatsky,Boris Strugatsky,Hari Kunzru,Olena Bormashenko

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.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613748310

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Transmission

By: Hari Kunzru

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Transmission

By: Hari Kunzru

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.

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0141910267

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White Tears

A novel

By: Hari Kunzru

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White Tears

A novel

By: Hari Kunzru

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The Impressionist

By: Hari Kunzru

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The Impressionist

By: Hari Kunzru

From the author of White Tears and Blue Ruin, this bestselling, award-winning novel of a young man’s journey explores what it means to be Indian or English, black or white, and every degree that lies between. 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 a high caste. Pran lived a life of luxury just downriver from the Taj Mahal, but 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. 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 debut novel dazzles with its artistry and wit while it challenges with its insights into the self, nationality, race, and beyond.

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1101656131

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Ink

By: Hari Kunzru

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My Revolutions

A Novel

By: Hari Kunzru

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My Revolutions

A Novel

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Memory Palace

By: Hari Kunzru

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Memory Palace

By: Hari Kunzru

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.

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1851777695

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Red Pill

Roman

By: Hari Kunzru

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Red Pill

Roman

By: Hari Kunzru

Ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller erhält ein Stipendium für den Aufenthalt an einer Berliner Kulturstiftung. Das renommierte Deuter-Zentrum fühlt sich den Werten von Offenheit und Transparenz verpflichtet, er jedoch empfindet die rigiden Regeln der Akademie als Eingriff in seine Privatsphäre. Er sondert sich ab, unternimmt ausgedehnte Spaziergänge am Wannsee, liest Kleist und streamt sich durch alle Folgen einer ultrabrutalen Fernsehserie namens "Blue Lives". Auf einer Gala anlässlich der Berliner Filmfestspiele lernt er den Schöpfer der Serie kennen, einen jungen Amerikaner namens Anton, der sich rasch als reaktionärer Agitator entpuppt und eine unerklärliche Faszination auf ihn ausübt. Sind die konspirativen Codes und Signale, die er in Antons Serie zu erkennen glaubt, geheime Nachrichten an ihn? Ist er der Einzige, der Anton auf seinem Kreuzzug zur Verbreitung identitärer Werte aufhalten kann? Oder bildet er sich das alles nur ein? Nach und nach wird aus seinen quälenden Fragen echte Besessenheit, und er folgt Anton quer durch Europa, um ihn zu stellen ... Mit "Red Pill" führt uns Hari Kunzru die Selbstvergessenheit liberaler Demokratien vor Augen. Eindringlich schildert er, welchen Gefahren sich unsere Gesellschaft im digitalen Zeitalter aussetzt, wenn sie, von der eigenen Unfehlbarkeit überzeugt, radikale Kräfte gewähren lässt. Denn zum autoritären Staat ist es immer nur ein kleiner Schritt.

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Verlagsbuchhandlung Liebeskind

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3954381389

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Reckless

A Poetry Collection

By: Sahi Hari

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Reckless

A Poetry Collection

By: Sahi Hari

Reckless is a colorful representation of emotion fostered from the impactful moments life has to offer. Providing a fresh perspective as only a young poet can, Hari shares her reflections through a much-beloved medium. Hari brings vibrant energy to her work, drawing from classical influences as well as contemporary ideas. This collection is a strong representation of life written in a thoughtfully artistic way, with interpretations stemming from the complexity and simplicity of the human experience. Readers are able to easily connect with Haris powerful poetry, allowing for a mutually developed understanding between both the reader and the poet. With a fresh take on writing poetry, Hari has successfully demonstrated her creative talent in her poetry collection.

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1468573799

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Red Pill

By: Hari Kunzru

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Red Pill

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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 angoisse sourde s’empare de lui : dans ce centre où la transparence est le maître mot, son esprit vacille, d’autant plus qu’il se met à regarder Blue Lives, une série policière ultra-violente qui l’obsède de plus en plus... Le jour où il rencontre Anton, le créateur de Blue Lives, il découvre sur quelle idéologie elle se fonde et le but recherché par cet homme énigmatique : imprégner ses spectateurs d’une vision du monde d’extrême-droite...Ou bien le narrateur est-il simplement paranoïaque ? Hari Kunzru a enfermé dans Red Pill tous les cauchemars de notre époque où la propagande et l’inversion des valeurs sont reines. Où la vérité, même, n’existe plus. C’est un grand roman politique par un auteur au sommet de son art.

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Christian Bourgois éditeur

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2267043696

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Blue Ruin

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Blue Ruin

Roman

By: Hari Kunzru

Im London der Neunzigerjahre war Jay einer der vielversprechendsten jungen Künstler. Heute hat er keinen festen Wohnsitz, er schläft in seinem Auto und liefert Lebensmittel in Upstate New York aus. Die Pandemie ist in ihrer Hochphase, jeder ist verunsichert und hat Angst. Jay muss eine Lieferung zu einem riesigen, mit einem ausgeklügelten Alarmsystem gesicherten Anwesen bringen, das mitten im Wald liegt. Als sich die Tür öffnet, steht ihm eine Frau gegenüber, die einst spurlos aus seinem Leben verschwand ... Vor über zwanzig Jahren hatten Jay und Alice eine stürmische, selbstzerstörerische Beziehung, bis Alice mit seinem besten Freund Rob durchbrannte, der später in New York zum gefeierten Kunststar aufsteigt. Trotz Schutzmaske und seines desolaten Zustands erkennt Alice Jay sofort und lädt ihn ein, eine Zeit lang auf dem Anwesen Zuflucht zu suchen, zusammen mit Rob und einem befreundeten Paar. Doch die Vergangenheit lässt sich nicht einfach ausblenden, und die Situation läuft langsam, aber sicher aus dem Ruder ...

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