Transmission av Hari Kunzru

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<p><b>Hari Kunzru''s <i>Transmission</i> is a witty novel about cyberspace, a Bollywood dancer and a world where everyone is connected.</b><br><br>It''s the twenty-first century, and everything and everyone is connected.<br><br>Meet Arjun Mehta, an Indian cybergeek catapulted into California''s spiralling hi-tech sector; Leela Zahir, beguiling Bollywood actress filming in the midge-infested Scottish wilds; and Guy Swift, hyped-up marketing exec lost in a blue-sky tomorrow of his own devising. Three dislocated individuals seeking nodes of connectivity - a place to fit in. Yet this is the twenty-first century, and their lives are about to become unexpectedly entangled as a virus spreads, and all their futures are rewired. But will it take them further from their dreams, or closer to their hearts?<br><br>''An aphoristic joke, a neat turn of phrase; a joke that makes you laugh . . . there''s nothing Kunzru couldn''t manage in prose. Thoroughly engrossing'' <i>Literary Review</i><br><br>''F