Hari kunzru biography for kids in english

He is of mixed Kashmiri Pandit and English ancestry, and grew up in Essex. His work has been translated into twenty languages. Pran Nath Razdan, is a half-English and half-Indian boy, who has been disowned by his high-caste family when they learn the truth about his parentage. Accustomed to the living in the lap of luxury and being woefully unqualified to take care of himself, he is now fully alone and forced to reinvent himself in his own struggle to just survive.

What it means to be white or black, and the need to find a place where somebody truly belongs. In this networked world, anything can change in a single instant, and sometimes it does. This is a new novel of lunacy and love, immunity and immigration. It introduces a daydreaming Indian computer geek whose luxurious fantasies of life in America get shaken when he takes a job in California.

The impressionist hari kunzru summary

Arjun Mehta, naive and lonely, bides his time as a lowly assistant virus tester, pining for Christine, his free-spirited colleague. Despite building some digital creatures in a feeble effort to enhance his own job security, he gets laid off like so many of his Silicon Valley peers. In an act of desperation to keep his own job, he releases a destructive yet mischievous virus on a global scale which has some major unintended consequences.

Kunzru takes an ultra-contemporary turn in a playful, stylish, and wicked exploration of life at the click of a mouse with precision. It is the day before Mike Frame turns fifty and his peaceful provincial life suddenly falls apart around him. But maybe none of that matters, since it is not his life to begin with. Mike now sees ghosts, an old friend that wants to reminisce and a dead former lover.

Miranda, who formerly spoke about alternative lifestyles with an emphasis on alternative, rather than lifestyles, reinvents herself as a thrusting nineties businesswoman.