num_pages: 277
description: In a networked world, anything can change in an instant, and sometimes everything does...… 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 naïve, Arjun Mehta bides his time as a lowly assistant virus tester, pining away for his free-spirited colleague Christine. Despite building digital creatures in a feeble attempt to enhance his job security, 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 best-selling debut, The Impressionist. And now, with his exuberant follow-up, Transmission, Kunzru takes an ultracontemporary turn in a stylish, playful, and wicked exploration of life at the click of a mouse.
language: English
title: Transmission
titlecomplete: Transmission
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Indian Literature, Technology, The United States Of America, India, Novels, Contemporary, Unfinished, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2077
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: RSL Encore Award
publisher: Dutton Adult