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Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008: It's not the first time a story like this has been told: a '60s radical-turned-terrorist, living quietly under a new name with a family that doesn't know his history, finds his past about to catch up with him. But Hari Kunzru's novel, My Revolutions, feels fresh on every page. Not from the over-the-top pyrotechnics that brought so much attention to his precocious debut, The Impressionist, but from a thorough fictional imagination that gives every scene and every character the rich strangeness of reality. It's a grownup story of a youth lived at the edge (and a life spent in its shadow), which makes an emblematic tale of a generation feel irreducibly individual. --Tom Nissley
From Bookmarks Magazine
My Revolutions, the third novel by critically acclaimed British writer Hari Kunzru (named one of Granta’s “Twenty Best Fiction Writers Under Fortyâ€), melds deep political and philosophical reflections with a page-turner of a plot. The result is a novel that most critics praised for being both enthralling and thought provoking. While the Seattle Times complained that “for those of us who enjoy reading Kunzru for his laser wit and wicked sense of dark social comedy, My Revolutions is a bit of a letdown,†most reviewers agreed that Kunzru manages to treat his characters, with all their failed idealism, their sins and their compromises, with both careful scrutiny and a welcome sense of compassion. In so doing, Kunzru asks an important, timely question: How does idealism lead to violenceâ€"and then back to indifference?
Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.
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Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008: It's not the first time a story like this has been told: a '60s radical-turned-terrorist, living quietly under a new name with a family that doesn't know his history, finds his past about to catch up with him. But Hari Kunzru's novel, My Revolutions, feels fresh on every page. Not from the over-the-top pyrotechnics that brought so much attention to his precocious debut, The Impressionist, but from a thorough fictional imagination that gives every scene and every character the rich strangeness of reality. It's a grownup story of a youth lived at the edge (and a life spent in its shadow), which makes an emblematic tale of a generation feel irreducibly individual. --Tom Nissley
From Bookmarks Magazine
My Revolutions, the third novel by critically acclaimed British writer Hari Kunzru (named one of Granta’s “Twenty Best Fiction Writers Under Fortyâ€), melds deep political and philosophical reflections with a page-turner of a plot. The result is a novel that most critics praised for being both enthralling and thought provoking. While the Seattle Times complained that “for those of us who enjoy reading Kunzru for his laser wit and wicked sense of dark social comedy, My Revolutions is a bit of a letdown,†most reviewers agreed that Kunzru manages to treat his characters, with all their failed idealism, their sins and their compromises, with both careful scrutiny and a welcome sense of compassion. In so doing, Kunzru asks an important, timely question: How does idealism lead to violenceâ€"and then back to indifference?
Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.
See all Editorial Reviews
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