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In Transmission, award-winning writer Hari Kunzru takes an ultra-contemporary turn with the story of an Indian computer programmer whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer.
Lonely and na�ve, Arjun spends his days as a lowly assistant virus- tester, pining away for his free-spirited colleague Christine. Arjun gets laid off like so many of his Silicon Valley peers, and 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.
- Sales Rank: #513964 in Books
- Published on: 2005-01-25
- Released on: 2005-01-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .70" w x 5.30" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
From Publishers Weekly
With this taut and entertaining novel, London native Kunzru paints a satirized but unsettlingly familiar tableau, in which his alienated characters communicate via e-mail jokes and emote through pop culture, all the while dreaming of frothy lattes and designer labels. Arjun Mehta is an Indian computer programmer and Bollywood buff who comes to the U.S. with big dreams, but finds neither the dashing romance nor the heroic ending of his favorite movies—just a series of crushing disappointments. When he is told he will lose his job at the global security software company and thus may have to return to India, Arjun develops and secretly releases a nasty computer virus, hoping that he can impress his boss into hiring him back when he "finds" the cure. Arjun's desperate measures are, of course, far reaching, eventually affecting the lives of Guy Swift, an English new money entrepreneur; his girlfriend, Gabriella; and the young Indian movie star Leela Zahir. Kunzru weaves their narratives adroitly, finding humor and pathos in his misguided characters, all the while nipping savagely at consumer culture and the executives who believe in "the emotional magma that wells from the core of planet brand." While Guy Swift creates a marketing campaign for border police that imagines Europe as an "upscale, exclusive continent," Arjun Mehta is fighting to keep his scrap of the American dream. Kunzru's first novel, The Impressionist, was received enthusiastically (it was shortlisted for numerous awards, and won quite a few others, including the Somerset Maugham Award), and this follow-up will not disappoint fans of his stirring social commentary.
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From School Library Journal
Adult/High School–Arjun Mehta, computer programmer and extreme Bollywood fan, dreams of a different life than his native India offers him. It seems like magic when a placement service in the U.S. offers to fly him to the states and help him find a job. After several weeks in limbo, he takes a position with a software developer specializing in virus protection. He befriends Chris, a heavily tattooed, bisexual rock-and-roll chick who takes pity on him. She exposes clueless Arjun to pieces of U.S. culture that challenge him in ways that are both humorous and thought-provoking. After a sexual interlude that ends his friendship with her, Arjun finds himself on a list of employees to be laid off. In desperation, he creates a computer virus around the image of a popular Bollywood star and unleashes it on the Internet. He plans to present a solution for it, making money for his company, saving his job, and turning himself into a hero. But, of course, things go awry as the virus takes on a life of its own. Kunzru's details of the technology are thrilling and accessible, bringing to mind William Gibson's classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (Ace, 1984). The point of view switches to other characters to show the effects of the virus on a more personal level. Ultimately, this is a mainstream-style novel with strong characters and situations that has just enough science-fiction elements to satisfy readers of both genres.–Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale
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From The New Yorker
When Indian programming whiz Arjun Mehta's dreams of success in America are imperilled by the collapse of the Internet bubble, he unleashes a virus on the world's computers, wreaking havoc on a scale surpassing even his own expectations. Named after a Bollywood star, the Leela virus halts trains, crashes power grids, and brings international commerce to a halt. Caught up in the chaos is Guy Swift, a smug star of the new economy working to keep his London branding agency afloat. Kunzru flits dexterously between Guy's bullish hubris and Arjun's desperate toils, creating a sharp snapshot of the heady time when everyone was "surfing the wave of innovation" in a seemingly boundless boom. The insistent trendiness of the novel's preoccupations risks becoming tiresome, but Kunzru's engagingly wired prose and agile plotting sweep all before them, as the characters career toward ruin.
Copyright � 2005 The New Yorker
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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
"Amrika, Residence of the Non Resident Indian."
By Mary Whipple
Arjun Mehta, a dreamer and innocent, is still living at home with his parents in a middle-class Indian housing complex when he is hired to work as a computer expert in Silicon Valley. Thinking his dreams have come true, he flies to California, only to discover that his well-paying job doesn't exist--that he will be working for almost nothing and paying half his salary for housing. Employed only part-time and living in poverty, he finally gets his "big break," a job at Virugenix, an internet security company in Redmond, Washington, where he works as a "ghost-buster" on the anti-virus team. When cutbacks in the tech industry cost him that job, he desperately devises a plan: to unleash the Leela Virus, named for his favorite Bollywood actress, so he can become a hero by "curing" it.
Kunzru satirizes American culture and dependence on technology as the na�ve Arjun makes his way in America. Arjun learns that poverty "does not exclude cars, refrigerators, cable TV, and obesity," and that Virugenix features "neat landscaping and plenty of designated parking." A wry, satiric tone permeates the description of Arjun's life and his conflict of values, and American superficiality is skewered. Kunzru furthers this satire with two subplots, alternating scenes of the "real" Leela Zahir's life as a Bollywood film star with scenes of Arjun, pointing up the excesses of the rich and famous and the contrast with "real life." A third plot line features a European "marketing visionary," Guy Swift, who must keep international venture capitalists at bay while he enjoys the pretentious, international highlife.
As the Leela virus caused disasters to systems ranging from water filtration to airport security and international banking and business, the three plot lines come together in a clever conclusion which resembles the films Arjun enjoys. Some readers may tire of the pervasive satire of materialism, since this is an old subject, addressed many times and in many ways. Arjun's naivete, his vision of life as a filmscript, and his relationship with a woman as bizarre as Chris are somewhat implausible, though these may be excusable on the grounds that they open the story to more satire. The relevance of the Guy Swift subplot is unclear, though the irony of Guy's fate will amuse even the most jaded reader. Fast-paced and filled with unique imagery, the novel is humorous but pointed in its criticism, an honest commentary on the transmission of American technology and culture, and its pervasive effects throughout the world. Mary Whipple
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest
By Lonya
Hari Kunzru's Transmission is a funny yet thoughtful life and hard times of a young Indian software programmer who journeys from New Delhi to the U.S. to make a name for himself in the software industry.
Arjun Mehta is a na�ve young programmer who has just graduated from a mid-level technical college in the suburbs of New Delhi. A na�ve and sheltered young man, Arjun's primary social activity is to watch and become enthralled with the heroes and heroines of India's (Bollywood) film industry. Leela Zahir, a rising starlet, is the object of his sweetly innocent passion. When not dreaming about Leela, Arjun dreams of a job in Silicon Valley. His dreams are realized when he is offered what appears to be an idyllic job opportunity. Upon arriving in America Arjun soon discovers that this unique job opportunity is a work-for-hire scheme reminiscent of the days of company stores in coal mining communities.
Things begin to look up for Arjun when he is taken on by an anti-virus company. There he meets the tattooed, attractive Chris. Chris is a comely girl and for reasons known only to her decides to introduce Arjun to the more physical aspects of love. Of course, much to Chris' dismay the sheltered Arjun thinks that their one night stand amounts to a declaration of love. Arjun's dismay is magnified when his company's economic woes cause him to be laid off. In desperation, Arjun unleashes a computer virus in the hopes that when he finds a `fix' for the virus he will be rehired and his dream will be saved. Of course, not only does he not get his job back but the virus, featuring an animation of his matinee idol Leela in the middle of a Bollywood dance routine causes worldwide havoc. Arjun, hounded by the FBI finds himself hiding in the dark underbelly of America; dingy bus stations populated by the unseen and always avoided underclass.
Two other stories track Arjun's journey through the belly of the beast. Kunzru tracks Leela Zahir, filming a movie in Scotland, as the world's press focus on the person after whom the virus has been named. Kunzru paints a picture of a film industry beset by corruption and domineering mothers. At the same time Kunzru introduces us to Guy Swift. Swift is one of those curses of the 21st-century, a quasi new age consultant who cocaine fueled discourse on branding and product development would be hilarious if they didn't track some of the vacuous discourse I have heard from sales and marketing consultants. As the story reaches the end the interconnections between the three story lines become apparent.
Transmission was a fun book to read. Kunzru has an eye for the quirks of human nature and has a nice way of pointing out those quirks in a funny, rather than cruel fashion. Although he paints with a broad brush, the nerdiness and naivety of Arjun and the empty-headed drug-fueled portrait of Guy Swift, his broad characterization works. I found myself involved in the characters, particularly Arjun, and kept reading because Kunzru made me want to find out how the story ends.
Kunrzu's ruminations on the global economy are funny, on point, and are not overly pedantic. I very much enjoyed Transmission and look forward to reading his first novel, The Impressionist.
L. Fleisig
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Innocence abroad
By Anonymous
This sharply tragi-comic novel illustrates the dehumanizing effects of the globalized economy. While attending a programming job cattle-call, Arjun Mehta was recruited by a vocational pimp, and shipped to the U.S. as an indentured techno-servant. After he is exploited personnally, intellectually, and sexually, his emptiness reaches critical mass. Basically, he does create the Leela virus to try to salvage his job, but his deeper goal is to create a life-form. He is so bereft by his losses (which he can't reveal to his family) that he creates the virus to have something to nurture, like a baby. This baby replicates so manically that Arjun is a great-great grandfather within seconds, though. In addition to Arjun, we get to follow Guy Swift (who should be played by Jude Law in the movie) an English capitalist smart-ass; Gabrielle, his globe-hopping unfulfilled girlfriend; and Leela Zahir, the Indian film star who dances through Arjun's heart and the global consciousness. This book is written in language that is subtle and poetic. It is a gem with so many facets that it took me 3 weeks to get though this slender book. There are uproariously funny scenes; thought-provoking tapestries; and a good education. When the virus creator becomes a folk hero, the reader hopes that he finally feels the sincere love he has inspired.
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