Book review
Leela Zahir, Bollywood actress and temperamental star, is being catapulted from the fringes of fame into a million inboxes. Arjun Mehta, computer geek, looks up from his screen to find that he does, after all, have a role to play in the world. Guy Swift, marketing executive with his own agency, a beautiful girlfriend and a handle on modern life, is losing his grip.
The message that has landed in a million inboxes has the power to destroy dreams and to make them, to hijack lives and to set them free. In this age of instant worldwide communication, anything can happen and anything will. ..
Hari Kunzru's new novel is a heady mix of London, Bollywood and Silicon Valley Taking in three continents and following the lives of Guy, Arjun and Leela as they make their way in the real world, Transmission is a brilliant and funny take on life at the click of a mouse.

Published by Penguin Group (UK)
Edition: Paperback
Format: 234 x 153 mm | 282 pages
Classification: Fiction
Published: 6/1/2004




About the author Born in London, UK, in 1969, Hari Kunzru has a first class honours degree in English Language and Literature from Oxford University and an MA in Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University. Associate Editor, Wired UK (1996-7). Observer Young Travel Writer of the Year (1999). Regular contributor to many UK and international publications, writing about technology, cultural change, electronic music and art. Music Editor of Wallpaper magazine and a travel correspondent for TimeOut. He has also written for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Economist, iD, Tank, Artbyte (US), Telepolis (Germany), and the London Review of Books.