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  • Transmission

  • By: Hari Kunzru
  • Narrated by: Hari Kunzru
  • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (153 ratings)

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Transmission

By: Hari Kunzru
Narrated by: Hari Kunzru
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Publisher's summary

Transmission, Hari Kunzru's new novel of love and lunacy, immigration and immunity, introduces a daydreaming Indian computer geek whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer.

Lonely and naive, Arjun Mehta spends his days as a lowly assistant virus tester and pining away for his free-spirited colleague Christine. Arjun gets laid-off like so many of his Silicon Valley peers. 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.

Award-winning novelist Hari Kunzru was hailed as a "modern-day Kipling," for his bestselling debut, The Impressionist. With this exuberant follow-up, Kunzru takes an ultracontemporary turn in a stylish, playful, and wicked exploration of life at the click of a mouse.

©2004 Hari Kunzru (P)2004 Simon and Schuster Inc. AUDIOWORKS, is an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc.
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Critic reviews

"Delectable...Mr. Kunzru writes with wry certitude and cinematic precision." (The New York Times)
"A sprawling, ambitious, shape-shifting novel...Kunzru proves himself a clever, sharply observant writer...much more than a brilliant satirist." (The Washington Post)

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A complete entertaining experience

Mr. Kunzuru kept me smiling through the book. A satirical touch to technology driven immigrants, the Indian film industry, unsuccessful jargon pouting marketing geeks, venture capitalist, golf playing Arabs and the various manifestation of women in everyones lives. Thankfully, there is also a plot with many sub plots, which are quite interesting and amusing but the superb characterization and the narration is the winner. I could relate to all the characters in this book.

Only negative part about Mr. Kunzrus book is the prolonged description of places and events. While at some stages it was useful to visualize the complete scene where the protagonist lives and works to experience his escapades while at the other times the author would not relent until he had informed us about everything other than the brand of lubricating oil used for the swivel chairs in the room.

The book is well read. The author does this superbly! A cinematic experience!

This book will not disappoint anyone.

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