Hari Kunzru

There´s a message in your inbox. Then, a few moments later, your computer crashes. Leela Zahir, Bollywood actress and temperamental star, is being catapulted from the fringes of fame into a million inboxes. Arjun Mehta, computer geek, looks up from his sc

V románu, který je vtipnou variací na pikareskní román, nás autor provede nejrůznějšími sférami koloniální společnosti a na pozadí velkých dějinných událostí, jako je indický boj za nezávislost nebo první světová válka, vykreslí postavu, která vlastně žádnou postavou není – Prán Nat musí o přežití bojovat neustálým vymýšlením nových identit a román tyto proměny sleduje. Jeho četné identity zavedou hrdinu do celého světa – z posvátného indického města Ágra s ním cestujeme do Amritsaru a do životem kypící Bombaje, odtud do Londýna a britských internátních škol a přes krátkou návštěvu Paříže, která právě začíná žít jazzem, se dostaneme do západní Afriky, kde v jistém smyslu jedna protagonistova cesta končí a zcela jiná začíná.

Bollywoodská hvězdička dosáhne takové proslulosti, o jaké se nesnilo jí ani její ambiciózní matce. Indický emigrant v Americe a zneuznaný programátor Ardžún Mehta ukáže všem, proč právě on neměl být tím prvním, který musí při ekonomickém útlumu opustit své zaměstnání. Šéf anglické mediální agentury Guy Swift zase na vlastní kůži pozná, že slova nejsou všechno a virtuální peníze vůbec nic.

A new work of fiction by Hari Kunzru, best-selling author of Gods Without Men, forms the basis of this innovative book and exhibition, in which reading a story is translated into a three-dimensional visual experience by leading typographers, illustrators and graphic designers. Hari Kunzru has conjured a dark vision of a future in which not just books but remembering itself is banned and a small group of renegade memorialists is all that stands in the face of total oblivion. From the point of view of one of their incarcerated members, Memory Palace takes us through his fragmented memories as he lies trapped in his cell, clinging to the belief that without memory civilization is doomed. An essay by the exhibition's curators, Laurie Britton Newell and Ligaya Salazar, unpicks the intentions and process behind this innovative project, while specially commissioned work by Robert Frank Hunter and drawings from the exhibition's collaborators illustrate the book.

A stunning, audacious new thriller... It will shock you, horrify you, unsettle you, and that's exactly the point. As brave as it is brutal, it lets nothing and nobody off the hook' NPR 'A book that everyone should be reading right now' TIME New Yorkers Carter and Seth chop up old music to make it new again, ripping off black culture to line white pockets. They are young, hungry and talented. But one day they stumble on an old blues song - an undiscovered gem just waiting to be found - and land themselves in a heap of trouble. Seeking answers, Seth travels deep into the heart of the old South, accompanied by Carter's bewitching sister Leonie. But this is America, where ghosts lie uneasy in shallow graves and tugging one loose thread can unravel a bloody history of injustice. And the closer Seth gets to the haunting truth, the more he feels pursued . . . White Tears is a nail-biting ride through the terrifying spectre of America's past. It's about black lives and white privilege and the music that runs through the country's veins like blood.

'The book I wish I'd written? Whatever Hari Kunzru is publishing next' Aravind Adiga ''Red Pill stands as a final blast of sanity against this new, deranged reality. It is a literary masterpiece for a barbaric new world rapidly running out of room for literary masterpieces.' The Spectator '[A] deeply intelligent and artfully constructed novel.' Financial Times From the author of White Tears comes a breathtaking, state-of-the-world novel about one man's struggle to defend his values and create a reality free from the shadows of the past. 'From now on when you see something, you're seeing it because I want you to see it. When you think of something, it'll be because I want you to think about it...' And with those words, the obsession begins. A writer has left his family in Brooklyn for a three month residency at the Deuter Centre in Berlin, hoping for undisturbed days devoted to artistic absorption. When nothing goes according to plan, he finds himself holed up in his room watching Blue Lives, a violent cop show with a bleak and merciless worldview. One night at a party he meets Anton, the charismatic creator of the show, and strikes up a conversation. It is a conversation that leads him on a journey into the heart of moral darkness. A conversation thatthreatens to destroy everything he holds most dear, including his own mind. Red Pill is a novel about the alt-right, online culture, creativity, sanity and history. It tells the story of the 21st century through the prism of the centuries that preceded it, showing how the darkest chapters of our past haunt our present. More than anything, though, this is a novel about love and how it can endure in a world where everything else seems to have lost all meaning. Praise for White Tears 'Exquisitely attuned' Washington Post 'Electrifying, subversive and wildly original' TheNew Yorker 'A book that everyone should be reading right now' TIME Magazine 'Haunting, doom-drenched, genuinely and viscerally disturbing...' The Independent

Bollywoodská hvězdička dosáhne takové proslulosti, o jaké se nesnilo jí ani její ambiciózní matce. Indický emigrant v Americe a zneuznaný programátor Ardžún Mehta ukáže všem, proč právě on neměl být tím prvním, který musí při ekonomickém útlumu opustit své zaměstnání. Šéf anglické mediální agentury Guy Swift zase na vlastní kůži pozná, že slova nejsou všechno a virtuální peníze vůbec nic.