Friends for faraway places Jun 14, 2008
Good places to start might be a couple of Rushdies - perhaps Midnight's Children and The Moor's Last Sigh (both Vintage) - A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (Harper Perennial), The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Flamingo), Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray), The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri (Bloomsbury), The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (Harper Perennial), The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru (Penguin), Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra (Faber), A Fine Balance by Rohinton... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Ten chapters May 25, 2008
In London, Sydney, Delhi and New York, publishers were now on the alert for 'the next Zadie Smith', a new generation of writers - Hari Kunzru, Monica Ali, Kiran Desai, Peter Ho Davies and Ali Smith among them - who would replace Ackroyd, Rushdie, Swift and Seth ... Hari Kunzru netted about 1. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
A decade in books May 25, 2008
Hari Kunzru ups the stakes with one of the biggest advances for a first novel in publishing history, a total of 1. 25m for UK, American and European rights for The Impressionist. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
No-frills publishing on the rise Apr 5, 2008
Two years after the launch of Macmillan's New Writing Ventures project, a budget operation dubbed "the Ryan Air of publishing" by Hari Kunzru, HarperCollins is set to follow suit, with a new imprint that reduces or dispenses with author advances in favour of increased profit sharing. Launched in 2005, Macmillan's new venture offers non-negotiable terms for writers including no advance payments, 20% of royalties from net sales, and advice that authors employ their own freelance copy editors. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
It's the clever way to power Mar 16, 2008
Studying in Oxford at the same time as me were: James Purnell, Louis Theroux, Sally Phillips, George Osborne, Hari Kunzru, Monica Ali, David Miliband, Ed Miliband, Yvette Cooper, Ed Balls, Emily Mortimer, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, oh, and literally dozens more at least semi-household names. When I ask Lynsey Hanley, on the other hand, the author of a brilliant book called Estates: An Intimate History about council estates (she grew up on, and went to school on one, in Birmingham), if there was... (Guardian Unlimited)
Lonely Londoner Mar 15, 2008
With the 40th anniversary of Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech next month, Hari Kunzru explores the racially charged Notting Hill depicted in the trailblazing novels of Trinidadian Samuel Selvon. Saturday March 15, 2008. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Review: Hari Kunzru's "My Revolutions," an autumnal depiction of a failed '60s radical Feb 19, 2008
Review: Hari Kunzru's "My Revolutions," an autumnal depiction of a failed '60s radical - International Herald Tribune. Review: Hari Kunzru's "My Revolutions," an autumnal depiction of a failed '60s radical ... My Revolutions By Hari Kunzru. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Exiled writer may stay in India - at a price Feb 16, 2008
"There seems to be a lack of political will to do anything about her situation," said British novelist Hari Kunzru. "The Indian government is trying to kick this problem into the long grass rather than deal with its responsibility to uphold freedom of expression.". (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Kunzrus My Revolutions tackles apathy, Iraq Feb 12, 2008
Hari Kunzru was named one of Granta Magazines Best Young British Novelists in 2003, and his remarkable ability to handle his words and control the reader becomes apparent during one of the books most intriguing chapters: As Mike drives around a roundabout in Paris, Kunzru shifts between moments as smoothly as shifting gears ... It almost doesnt matter that this isnt a new story, because Hari Kunzru tells it so well ... Hari Kunzru alternately treats the revolutions that Chris takes part in... (Yale Herald, CT)
Past, present interweave in 'Revolutions' Jan 29, 2008
My Revolutions By Hari Kunzru, Dutton, 288 pp ... In our post-9/11 world, it would seem difficult to write about terrorism before that pivotal September day and shed little light on terrorism since then, but Hari Kunzru has found a way in his disappointing novel, "My Revolutions.". (Boston Globe)
Review: 'My Revolutions' shows a rebel at 50 Jan 26, 2008
That's the question at the core of Hari Kunzru's third novel, "My Revolutions." Michael Frame is getting ready for his 50th birthday in West Sussex. His wife, Miranda, is throwing the birthday bash. (San Francisco Chronicle)
'The Book of Other People' features an impressive cast of characters Jan 21, 2008
David Mitchell and Hari Kunzru both write about unhinged women utterly lacking in self-perspective ... Hari Kunzru's turbulent Magda Mandela is a hoot, "a terrifying mash-up of the Venus of Willendorf and a Victoria's Secret catalogue" who's moved in with a widower 40 years her senior. (Boston Globe)
The Book of Other People Jan 11, 2008
It's quite a line-up, a rollcall of the young and gifted from both sides of the Atlantic: Zadie Smith (also the editor), Dave Eggers (the money raised by the book goes to the New York chapter of his 826 National foundation, dedicated to helping young people learn to write), David Mitchell, Andrew O'Hagan, Hari Kunzru, George Saunders, Jonathan Safran Foer and Jonathan Lethem included ... Yet a few characters linger in the mind long after the covers have closed: Jonathan Lethem's Perkus Tooth and... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
That's the best thing we've read all year Nov 25, 2007
Also in this section. Harry Potter's finale, the lives of Stalin, Brian Clough and Graham Greene, Ted Hughes's letters, a history of teenagers and not forgetting a tome on Welsh furniture. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Books special Nov 25, 2007
Also in this section. That's the best thing we've read all year. (Guardian Unlimited)
Book clubs to judge 'hidden gems' award Nov 23, 2007
I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti Dreams of Water by Nada Awar Jarrar Lint by Steve Aylett Ishq and Mushq by Priya Basil The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bower The Brief History of the Dead Kevin Brockmeier The Delivery Room by Sylvia Brownrigg Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon So He Takes the Dog by Jonathan Buckley The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr Footprints in the Sand by Sarah Challis In a Good Light by Clare Chambers Incendiary by Chris Cleave The House... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Terror stricken Nov 15, 2007
Hari KunzruThursday November 15, 2007 ... Hari Kunzru is the author of My Revolution. (Guardian Unlimited)
* Out of town Nov 7, 2007
By Hari Kunzru THE GUARDIAN, LONDON Wednesday, Nov 07, 2007, Page 13. Since 1853, when US naval officer Matthew Perry arrived in Edo Bay with his squadron of "black ships" looking for a trade deal, Japan has possessed a mystique for Westerners that has served as much to alienate as attract. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Brick Lane's many narratives Oct 29, 2007
Monday October 29, 2007. As a mixed-race novelist (hell, just as a novelist), I would like to say to your leader writer (The trouble with Brick Lane, October 27) that I reserve the right to imagine anyone and anything I damn well please. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
'It's carnage ...' Inside the genteel world of books Oct 14, 2007
But then he says that's how he picked up a lot of his writers: Hari Kunzru, Jake Arnott, and Tracy Chevalier among others. That's the trouble with this PFD affair,' he says. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
His own revolution Sep 17, 2007
Hari Kunzru's latest novel sees him discarding the broad comedy that made his name for a far more sober look at political extremism ... For a writer whose latest novel unfolds with a new sense of seriousness, Hari Kunzru shows little sign of losing his sense of humour ... "It looks nice," he says, "I don't know whether it's going anywhere yet ..." Perhaps what he needs is to find the next "Hari Kunzru protagonist" - the central character at the heart of each of his three very different books... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
How did we miss these? Sep 2, 2007
How did we miss these. Also in this section. (Guardian Unlimited)
America's first king of the road Aug 5, 2007
It struck me when I was in Thailand last year that no one is even pretending to be beat any more,' says the young British novelist Hari Kunzru ... Hari Kunzru, who 'came to the book late and found it almost cringey in its emotional gushiness,' agrees ... Hari Kunzru disagrees. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
'No one made films like him' Jul 31, 2007
Hari Kunzru Novelist. One afternoon a teacher decided to use double general studies to show us The Seventh Seal. (Guardian Unlimited)
Rushdie furore stuns honours committee Jun 21, 2007
Hari Kunzru "The idea that it is some kind of calculated insult is an absurdity. The real insult - to the intelligence and decency of 'the world's 1.5 billion Muslims', for whom people such as Mohammed Ejaz ul-Haq presume to speak - comes from the ignorance and paranoia of leaders who feel so threatened by a novelist that they'll call for him to be killed.". Kathy Lette "Being Australian, of course, I'm slightly allergic to royal anointing of any kind ... but I am definitely in favour of... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
'First ever' London literature festival announced May 18, 2007
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka joins Hari Kunzru, Pat Barker, Blake Morrison, Helen Oyeyemi, Jacqueline Wilson, Lauren Child and a host of other stars for the South Bank Centre's inaugural London literary festival, due to begin on June 29. The acting head of literature at the South Bank Centre, Martin Colethorpe, claimed it as the first ever London literary festival, referring back to the Festival of Britain, held on the same site in 1951. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
A new day dawns May 13, 2007
Though the legacy of Cambodia's troubled past is never far away, Hari Kunzru finds ease and optimism in Phnom Penh, and a country preparing to reinvent itself as a major tourist destination ... Hari Kunzru travelled with Audley Travel (01993 838000; ). (Guardian Unlimited)
'From the Drudge Report to beheading videos, censorship is being successfully circumvented around the globe'... Apr 1, 2007
Dissidents must be protected from internet censorship, argues Hari Kunzru in an essay for a PEN anthology, Another Sky. Saturday March 31, 2007. (The Drudge Report)
- 35 small works of literature by leading authors Mar 24, 2007
To cut a long story short. Ernest Hemingway once said his best work was a story he wrote in just six words: 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn. (Guardian Unlimited)
Literary prize bows to pressure over racial discrimination Jan 18, 2007
Nick TannerThursday January 18, 2007. The Decibel Penguin prize, an Arts Council initiative awarded to writers of "Asian, African and Caribbean background," has been forced to change its entry criteria after an intervention by the Commission for Racial Equality. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Treatment of Bollywood star has Britons asking, 'Is this us?' Jan 18, 2007
"This is what 'Big Brother' is for," said the novelist Hari Kunzru. "It holds a mirror up to national attitudes. If we don't like what we see, we ought to change.". (International Herald Tribune)
This year's best books Jan 5, 2007
Hari Kunzru follows a man from anti-Vietnam demonstrations to suburbia in My Revolutions (Hamish Hamilton, August). Crime, fantasy and thrillers. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
