Name: Transmission, Paperback/Hari Kunzru
Brand: Plume Books
Price: 124.99 RON
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The award-winning writer of White Tears and The Impressionist 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. About author(s): Hari Kunzru , author of White Tears and the award-winning, bestselling novel The Impressionist , was named as one of Granta 's "20 Best Fiction Writers Under 40." The Impressionist was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist; was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and a British Book Award; and was one of Publishers Weekly 's Best Novels of 2002. Kunzru has written for a variety of English and international publications, including The Guardian , Daily Telegraph , The London Review of Books , and Wired .