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Title: Transmission

Author: Hari Kunzru

Narrator: Hari Kunzru

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-19-10

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

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.

Members Reviews:

Arjun Creates Havoc on the World!

I very much enjoyed Hari Kunzru's more recent books, so I picked up Transmission not knowing at all what it was about. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that its main character was a Non-Resident Indian (NRI) named Arjun who comes from Noida in NCR, India. (All while reading this book while I was sitting in Delhi!). The book is about a young man named Arjun who is a techie in India and signs up with a shady recruiting firm and gets placed into a job in the US that doesn't quite work out. He is out of work and despondent down to his last few dollars and then gets called to work at a security firm in Redmond, WA--very close to Microsoft. He starts work and befriends an alternative-looking and acting girl named Chris who introduces him to many aspects of "free" America including teaching him how to drive. When his company falls on tough times, he is laid off and as a result will be deported back to India. In an last ditch effort to stay, he unleashes a massive virus on the world named for a famous Pakistani actress. I found to be the book quite exciting and quick moving. Kunzru does his typical good work developing the various main and side-show characters including a super interesting and devoid of intelligence marketing consultant. I highly recommend the book to Kunzru readers and to anyone up for a solid well-written read.

Well, it was OK...

I bought a used copy of Transmission because I was thinking of buying Hari Kunzru'sGods Without Menand I wanted to see what sort of writer Mr. Kunzru is. The answer is: he's OK, but not great. After I finished the book (which was in excellent condition) I gave it to the library for resale, since I'm not going to read it again.

The major problem with Transmission, and the reason that I could not give it a better review was plotting. Transmission is one of those novels where characters that seemingly have no connection are separate plot threads. Usually the author brings the threads together as the characters unexpectedly intersect each other's lives. The intersection in Transmission is tangential at best. There is a weak attempt to pull the threads together, but it's tenuous at best.