| Transmission Contributor(s): Kunzru, Hari (Author) |
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ISBN: 0452286514 ISBN-13: 9780452286511 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: Award-winning writer 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Technological - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004003295 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.55 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 85254 Reading Level: 7.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The award-winning writer of White Tears and The Impressionist 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. |