Summary
A daring, compulsively readable novel that journeys into the dark history of modern America.
Best friends Carter and Seth have just one thing in common—music. After college, they move to New York and begin selling old jazz and blues records to the new generation of music fans, ripping off black culture to line white pockets. Until one day they walk into trouble: a lost song resurfaces which contains the power to ruin them both.
First Carter, then Seth is sucked into a vortex o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241977873 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241977878 |
| Author: | Hari Kunzru |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 247g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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White Tears is a book that everyone should be reading right now * TIME Magazine *
[A] stunning, audacious, urgent thriller, as challenging as it is terrifying, as brave as it is brutal… It will shock you, horrify you, unsettle you, and that’s exactly the point. It lets nothing and nobody off the hook * NPR *
Delilloesque – moody, threatening, and profoundly dark… A story about ghosts, about grievances leaking through the fabric of decades, and about retribution, violence and hatred. At every turn, Kunzru’s words concoct a dreamlike world where the past isn’t dead and the boundaries of reality flicker at the margins. * Huffington Post *
Haunting, doom-drenched, genuinely and viscerally disturbing… Kunzru showcases his trademark exhilarating prose throughout - closing with a conclusion that packs a real punch * Independent *
Like Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch… A stunning novel of ideas that becomes a page-turning thriller… During Trump’s presidency, reading White Tears feels like a necessary and exhilarating act * Stylist *
A disorientating odyssey through decades of American history…Kunzru has always been an assured and intellectually gifted novelist, but I am not sure he has ever before displaying such emotional heft * Daily Telegraph *
Visceral horror, pacey storytelling and razor tautness. White Tears is a state-of-the-nation novel that ties pre-Civil Rights barbarism with a contemporary amnesia that parades as post racial America * Evening Standard *
Graceful [and] exquisitely attuned * Washington Post *
Exquisite… captures a yearning achieved fleetingly in life and more fully in art * i *
At its heart is a serious reminder of how too often history robs the powerless of their voices * Daily Mail *
About The Author
Hari Kunzru
Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions and Gods Without Men, and the story collection Noise. He lives in New York and his next novel, White Tears, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in spring 2017.
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