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In the latest novel from award-winning author Hari Kunzru, a failed artist who was big in the nineties grapples with his storied, difficult past and uncertain present, all while convalescing secretly in the cottage of his lost love, who just so happens to be married to his former best friend.

På sekstitallet er Chris Carver en radikal student som bryter med familien sin og lever et liv fullt av demonstrasjoner, narkotika, idealisme, new age, husokkupasjoner, fengselsopphold og studiesirkler. Men gjengen hans går tilslutt for langt, og demonstrasjoner blir til terrorhandlinger. Chris må skaffe seg en ny identitet og et nytt liv. Flere tiår senere blir han tvunget til å ta et oppgjør med fortiden.

Hari Kunzrus kritikerhyllede nye roman er en ubarmhjertig og fullstendig fengslende litterær thriller, men samtidig også mye, mye mer: Den er et kjærlighetsbrev til alle de glemte geniene i musikkhistorien, og rommer dessuten en særs aktuell diskusjon av rase i et samtidige USA. Hvite tårer er en heseblesende bok som lever videre lenge etter at man har lest den siste siden.To noen-og-tjue år gamle newyorkere. Seth er keitet og sjenert - Carter den glamorøse arvingen til en av USAs største formuer. De to har én ting felles, nemlig lidenskapen for musikk. Da Seth ved en tilfeldighet tar opp en ukjent bluessanger i parken, lager Carter en miks som han publiserer på nettet som en «forsvunnet» innspilling av artisten Charlie Shaw. Den blir en sensasjon blant platesamlere.Seth og Carter besøker en mann som hevder Charlie Shaw levde i virkeligheten, men på hjemveien blir Carter utsatt for et overfall. Mens Carter ligger i koma, drar Seth og Carters søster Leonie til dypet av Sørstatene for å komme til bunns i legenden om Charlie Shaw. Det blir en reise tilbake i fortiden, hvor en historie om grådighet, misunnelse, hevn og utnyttelse etter hvert skal åpenbare seg.

Gods Without Men is Hari Kunzru's epic novel of intertwined lives and a vast expanse of American desert.In the Californian desert . . .A four-year-old boy goes missing.A British rock star goes quietly mad.An alien-worshipping cult is born.An Iraqi teenager takes part in a war game.In a remote town, near a rock formation known as The Pinnacles, lives intertwine, stories echo, and the universal search for meaning and connection continues.'Kunzru's great American novel' Independent'Readers speak of it in hushed tones as conveying the secrets of the universe' Newsday'Extraordinary, smart, innovative, a revelation. Has the counterculture feel of a late-1960s US campus hit - something by Vonnegut or Pynchon or Wolfe. Genuinely interesting and exhilarating. Extremely enjoyable' Guardian'Astonishing, mind-blowing. One of the most original novels I've read in years' Counterpunch'One of the most socially observant and skilful novelists around. Consistently gripping and entertaining' Literary Review'A great sprawling narrative, as vast as the canvas on which it is written' Washington Post'Reverberates long after you finish reading it' New YorkerHari 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.

It s the day before Mike Frame s fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn t matter, because it s not his life in the first place. He has a past that his partner Miranda and step-daughter Sam know nothing about, lived under another name amidst the turbulence of the revolutionary armed struggle of the 1970s. Now Mike is seeing ghosts a dead ex-lover and an old friend who wants to reminisce. Mike can no longer ignore the contradiction between who he is and who he once was. Which side was he on back then? And which side is he on now?

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 TimesHari 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.

An adventure brimming with colour, energy and humour -- the acclaimed debut novel from the author of White TearsThis is the extraordinary story of a child conceived in a wild monsoon night, a boy destined to be an outsider, a man with many names and no name.Born into luxury but disinherited and cast out onto the streets of Agra, Pran Nath must become a chameleon. Chasing his fortune, he will travel from the red light district of Bombay to the green lawns of England to the unmapped African wilderness. He will play many different roles -- a young prize in a brothel, the adopted son of Scottish missionaries, the impeccably educated young Englishman headed for Oxford -- in order to find the role that will finally fit.Daring and riotously inventive, The Impressionist is an odyssey of self-discovery: a tale of the many lives one man can live and of the universal search for true identity.