July 15, 2004

Transmission

Posted by Chris

I’m just back from a brief holiday in Pembrokeshire where, among other things, I managed to finish Hari Kunzru’s new novel Transmission. Transmission is a fairly frothy but sharply observed tale of globalized internet folk which centres around the intertwined lives of Arjun Mehta, a microserf swept from his native India to code in the United States, Guy Swift, a London-based postmodern marketing executive and Leela Zahir, a Bollywood icon. I won’t say more, so as not to spoil it. But if you’ve read his earlier The Impressionist , then I’d say that this one is lighter but, on the whole, more satisfactory. Definitely worth taking to the beach.

Posted on July 15, 2004 05:17 PM UTC
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