Hari Kunzru Knihy

Vtipná variace na pikareskní román, kniha, ve které nás autor provede různými vrstvami koloniální společnosti a na historickém pozadí (indický boj za nezávislost, I.sv) vypráví o postavě, která vlastně žádnou postavou není. Prán Nat musí neustále měnit svoji tvář a vytvářet si další a další identity, které jej zavedou do celého světa, z indického města Agra do Amritsaru, Bombaje, Londýna, Paříže a konečně do západní Afriky, kde v jistém smyslu jedna cesta končí a zcela jiná začíná..

Román je postaven zejména na motivu přenosu a migrace informací, lidí, technologií, ale i virů. Aktérem knihy je počítačový virus Leela, který svede dohromady několik lidí z různých kontinentů a dramaticky změní jejich životy. Podobně jako v autorově prvním románu Impresionista nás autor vezme na cestu po celém světě. Poznáme Skotsko, Indii, Londýn, Kalifornii, Dubaj a Brusel. Virus je román ze současnosti. Je to svěží a vtipný román, který dokáže pobavit a zároveň inspirovat k zamyšlení.

"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.

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.

2008. The California desert. A four-year-old autistic boy, Raj Matharu, disappears in the wilderness, plunging his wealthy New York parents into the surreal public hell of a media witch-hunt. But the desert is inexplicable and miraculous, and the Matharus' fate is bound up with that of others: a debauched British rock star, on the run from a failed relationship and the sordid excesses of his life; a former member of an extraterrestrial-worshipping cult, now middle-aged but still haunted by transcendent callings; and a teenage Iraqi refugee, who befriends a young black Marine while playing the role of 'Iraqi villager' in a military simulation exercise. Their lives converge in an odd, remote town, near a rock formation called The Pinnacles -- and among the tangled echoes and stories of all those who have travelled before them through this brutally powerful landscape. A branching and multilayered novel by one of our most acclaimed writers, and a compulsively readable journey into the twists and turns of a handful of human lives, Gods Without Men is a heartfelt exploration of our search for pattern and meaning in a random and chaotic universe.

From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth. 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--and soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all. Wannsee is a place 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." When some friends drag him to a party where he meets Anton, the creator of Blue Lives , the narrator begins to believe that the two of them are involved in a cosmic battle, and that Anton is "red-pilling" his viewers--turning them toward an ugly, alt-rightish worldview--ultimately forcing the narrator to wonder if he is losing his mind.

Having briefly worked as a terrorist to protest the Vietnam War, Chris Carver hides his past from his suburban family and friends before a ghost from his past forces him to flee, a circumstance during which he remembers violent relationships with two fellow radicals

Two twenty-something New Yorkers: Seth, awkward and shy, and Carter, the trust fund hipster. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Rising fast on the New York producing scene, they stumble across an old blues song long forgotten by history - and everything starts to unravel. Carter is drawn far down a path that allows no return, and Seth has no choice but to follow his friend into the darkness. Trapped in a game they don't understand, Hari Kunzru's characters move unsteadily across the chessboard, caught between black and white, performer and audience, righteous and forsaken.

Indien um die Jahrhundertwende. In der Wüste von Rajasthan kreuzen sich während eines sintflutartigen Monsunregens die Pfade eines Engländers und einer jungen Inderin, die zu ihrer Hochzeit unterwegs ist. Neun Monate später wird ein Junge geboren, dem die Karten des Astrologen nichts Gutes verheißen. Als Pran Naths wahre Herkunft schließlich ans Licht kommt, muss er sein Elternhaus verlassen - für Pran der Beginn einer abenteuerlichen Reise, die ihn zunächst durch die exotische Welt des indischen Subkontinents führt, später sogar bis nach England, wo er mit einer neuen Identität und einer ordentlichen Portion Gewitztheit auch eine neue Heimat zu finden hofft ....§