Transmission -- Hari Kunzru, Paperback

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.

Author: Hari Kunzru
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 01/01/2005
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780452286511
Age Range: 18-UP

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 85254 / Transmission


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 02/01/2005 pg. 46
New York Times 03/13/2005 pg. 32

About the Author
Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears, Blue Ruin, 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.