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GENRE Graphic novel...
...LIKE A Clive Cussler novel fell into a transporter beam with a Stephen Ambrose history, and they came out all fused together...
...Bangalore or Bombay. It's also likely that this engineer spends his days off-assuming his employers allow him any-watching the latest Bollywood movies. No reason to worry about any of this, right? There isn't as long as you don't read Hari Kunzru's new novel, Transmission, in which an unhappy Indian programmer is driven by job insecurity and his obsession with a Bollywood starlet to write a vicious computer virus and unleash it on the world. The misadventures of this renegade geek-along with those of the starlet, her mother, a shallow London marketing executive...
...Transmission is Kunzru's follow-up to his debut novel, The Impressionist, which described the life of a half-English, half-Indian protagonist in colonial India. The success of that book-and the million dollar-plus advance the author reportedly received to write it-made Kunzru, now 34, one of the world's hot young authors. That has turned out not to be a curse. Half-English, half-Indian himself, Kunzru, a former technology writer for Wired magazine, has emerged as that rare phenomenon: a promising young author who exceeds his initial promise with his second novel...
...determined individual. Except for a deep sense of compassion for the plight of immigrants, Kunzru's work has no similar moral center, no vision of what a better world might look like. Indeed, as his publisher's publicity machine swings into action to make sure Kunzru's new novel earns a hefty return on their investment, it's hard to escape the feeling that Transmission is not really a chastisement of our way of living. It is just another amusement that our fully wired, fully market-researched world has thrown up, giving us a chance to laugh quickly...