Gods Without Men - Hardcover

Kunzru, Hari

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030795711X ISBN 13: 9780307957115

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2012

Synopsis

In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men.
—Honoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, 1830

Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed—but not unchanged—the fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others, echoing the stories of all those who have traveled before them.

Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape-shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh-and-blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, it is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe.

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Review:

A beautifully written echo chamber of a novel (David Mitchell)

Kunzru's engagingly wired prose and agile plotting sweep all before them (New Yorker)

One of the most talented writers of his generation (Image)

Kunzru's prose sashays across the page with all the fluid flamboyance of a dance (The Times)

Pitch-perfect masterwork (Publishers Weekly)

Kunzru just gets better and better. This fourth novel is an astonishing tour de force (Kirkus)

The literary skills of Hari Kunzru are evident throughout this complex and disturbing novel . . . beautifully constructed sentences . . . A briliant crossover literary feat (Annie Proulx Financial Times)

A funny, beautifully observed novel that raises big questions about how far events and people, past and present, are connected. But for all the big ideas, it is also surprisingly moving (Psychologies Magazine)

With each novel, Hari Kunzru is proving himself a subtler and more ingenious writer . . . his most ambitious work yet (Scotland on Sunday)

Dizzying scope . . . It is a testament to Kunzru's ability as a writer that Gods Without Men presents so many characters sketched so vividly (New Statesman)

About the Author:

Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, and My Revolutions, and is the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask Prize from the Society of Authors, a British Book Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Granta has named him one of its twenty best young British novelists, and he was a Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages, and his short stories and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Wired, and the New Statesman. He lives in New York City.

www.harikunzru.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 030795711X
• ISBN 13: 9780307957115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 369