Hari Kunzru Books in Order

Thrown out of his privileged Indian household after his mixed ancestry is revealed, Pran Nath reinvents himself through a succession of identities. His journey across the British Empire exposes the unstable boundaries of race, class, and belonging.

Indian programmer Arjun Mehta arrives in America expecting opportunity, only to lose his job. His attempt to regain control by releasing a computer virus sends consequences rippling through an interconnected world of technology, celebrity, and commerce.

These stories examine people living amid technology, the dot-com boom, and an increasingly connected culture. Kunzru explores the habits and pressures of the wired generation, bringing the changing digital world into his portraits of contemporary life.

Living as Michael Frame, former radical Chris Carver has built a quiet suburban life. When reminders of his involvement in political violence resurface, he must confront the history he concealed from his wife and daughter.

Jaz and Lisa Matharu's son disappears during a visit to the Mojave Desert. Their crisis intersects with stories spanning generations around a strange rock formation, where belief, isolation, and the search for meaning shape disparate lives.

After a magnetic storm destroys modern technology, a future London bans memory and recording. An imprisoned member of a clandestine group devoted to remembering tries to preserve fragments of the lost world within his mind.

Young musicians Seth and Carter turn an accidental recording into a supposedly forgotten blues record. When a collector insists it is authentic, their fascination with the sound draws them toward a disturbing history of exploitation.

A writer attending a fellowship in Berlin becomes obsessed with a violent television police drama and its creator. His encounters with the show's worldview intensify his doubts about art, politics, and his own grasp on reality.

Once a promising artist, Jay now lives in his car and delivers groceries in upstate New York. A delivery reunites him with a former lover and an old friend, reviving buried conflicts and questions about his abandoned artistic life.