{"title":"Hari Kunzru","description":"HARI KUNZRU is the author of six novels, Red Pill, White Tears, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, and The Impressionist. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, he is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the \"Easy Chair\" column for Harper's Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.","products":[{"product_id":"blue-ruin-paperback","title":"Blue Ruin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty and power, capital, art and those who devote their lives to creating it\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce, Jay was an artist. After graduating from art school in London, he was tipped for greatness, a promising career taking shape before him. That was not to happen. Now, undocumented in the United States, having survived Covid, he lives out of his car and barely makes a living as an essential worker, delivering groceries in a wealthy area of upstate New York. One day, as Jay attempts to make a delivery at a house surrounded by acres of woods, he is confronted by his destructive past: Alice, a former lover from his art school days, and the friend she left him for. Recognizing Jay's dire circumstances, Alice invites him to stay on their property--where an erratic gallery owner and his girlfriend are isolating as well--setting in motion a reckoning that has been decades in the making. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGripping and brilliantly orchestrated, \u003ci\u003eBlue Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e moves back and forth through time, delivering an extraordinary portrait of an artist as he reunites with his past and confronts the world he once loved and left behind.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103181738207,"sku":"9780593686980","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/tFm5FX_9xR9780593686980.webp?v=1781090443"},{"product_id":"transmission-paperback","title":"Transmission - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning writer of \u003ci\u003eWhite Tears\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlue Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLonely and naïve, 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104829313247,"sku":"9780452286511","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8FqmunHoCa9780452286511.webp?v=1781111404"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/hari-kunzru.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}