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With this taut and entertaining novel, London native Kunzru paints a satirized but unsettlingly familiar tableau, in which his alienated characters communicate via e-mail jokes and emote through pop culture, all the while dreaming of frothy lattes and designer labels. Arjun Mehta is an Indian computer programmer and Bollywood buff who comes to the U.S. with big dreams, but finds neither the dashing romance nor the heroic ending of his favorite movies—just a series of crushing disappointments. When he is told he will lose his job at the global security software company and thus may have to return to India, Arjun develops and secretly releases a nasty computer virus, hoping that he can impress his boss into hiring him back when he "finds" the cure. Arjun's desperate measures are, of course, far reaching, eventually affecting the lives of Guy Swift, an English new money entrepreneur; his girlfriend, Gabriella; and the young Indian movie star Leela Zahir. Kunzru weaves their narratives adroitly, finding humor and pathos in his misguided characters, all the while nipping savagely at consumer culture and the executives who believe in "the emotional magma that wells from the core of planet brand." While Guy Swift creates a marketing campaign for border police that imagines Europe as an "upscale, exclusive continent," Arjun Mehta is fighting to keep his scrap of the American dream. Kunzru's first novel, The Impressionist, was received enthusiastically (it was shortlisted for numerous awards, and won quite a few others, including the Somerset Maugham Award), and this follow-up will not disappoint fans of his stirring social commentary.

作者简介：

HARI KUNZRU, author of the award-winning and bestselling novel The Impressionist, was named as one of Granta's "20 Best Fiction Writers Under 40" The Impressionist was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist; was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and a British Book Award; and was one of Publishers Weeklys Best Novels of 2002. Kunzru has written for a variety of British and international publications, includ-ing The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The London Review of Books, and Wired. He lives in London.

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Publisher Comments:

When Hari Kunzru's eagerly awaited first novel, The Impressionist, was published, it was lauded and celebrated worldwide. In that rich, wry debut, Kunzru probed the realms of culture and identity through a savvy boy's attempts to reconcile the roles of his British father and his passionate Indian mother. Now, in Transmission, Kunzru takes an ultra-contemporary turn while introducing another tragicomic protagonist: an Indian computer programmer whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer.

Lonely and naive, Arjun bides his time as an assistant virus tester, pining for a free-loving looker named Christine and building digital creatures in a feeble attempt to enhance his job security. But, like so many of his Silicon Valley peers, Arjun gets fired. In an act of innocent desperation to keep his job and the woman he loves, he releases a mischievous and destructive virus around the globe. World order unravels, as does Arjun's sanity, in a rollicking cataclysm that even manages to involve Bollywood — and, not so coincidentally, the glamorous star of Arjun's favorite Indian movie.

As stylish, perceptive, and wicked as the writings of his ranking contemporaries Zadie Smith and Jonathan Safran Foer, Transmission brilliantly proves that Hari Kunzru is an author with limitless imaginative skill and boundless storytelling talent.

Review:

"With this taut and entertaining novel, London native Kunzru paints a satirized but unsettlingly familiar tableau, in which his alienated characters communicate via e-mail jokes and emote through pop culture, all the while dreaming of frothy lattes and designer labels. Arjun Mehta is an Indian computer programmer and Bollywood buff who comes to the U.S. with big dreams, but finds neither the dashing romance nor the heroic ending of his favorite movies — just a series of crushing disappointments. When he is told he will lose his job at the global security software company and thus may have to return to India, Arjun develops and secretly releases a nasty computer virus, hoping that he can impress his boss into hiring him back when he 'finds' the cure. Arjun's desperate measures are, of course, far reaching, eventually affecting the lives of Guy Swift, an English new money entrepreneur; his girlfriend, Gabriella; and the young Indian movie star Leela Zahir. Kunzru weaves their narratives adroitly, finding humor and pathos in his misguided characters, all the while nipping savagely at consumer culture and the executives who believe in 'the emotional magma that wells from the core of planet brand.' While Guy Swift creates a marketing campaign for border police that imagines Europe as an 'upscale, exclusive continent,' Arjun Mehta is fighting to keep his scrap of the American dream. Kunzru's first novel, The Impressionist, was received enthusiastically (it was shortlisted for numerous awards, and won quite a few others, including the Somerset Maugham Award), and this follow-up will not disappoint fans of his stirring social commentary. Agent, Emma Parry. (June) Forecast: This second novel may not receive the barrage of coverage and buzz the first did (that would be nearly impossible), but sales should hold steady as readers discover that Kunzru is no one-hit wonder."

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　----Publishers Weekly

From School Library Journal

Adult/High School–Arjun Mehta, computer programmer and extreme Bollywood fan, dreams of a different life than his native India offers him. It seems like magic when a placement service in the U.S. offers to fly him to the states and help him find a job. After several weeks in limbo, he takes a position with a software developer specializing in virus protection. He befriends Chris, a heavily tattooed, bisexual rock-and-roll chick who takes pity on him. She exposes clueless Arjun to pieces of U.S. culture that challenge him in ways that are both humorous and thought-provoking. After a sexual interlude that ends his friendship with her, Arjun finds himself on a list of employees to be laid off. In desperation, he creates a computer virus around the image of a popular Bollywood star and unleashes it on the Internet. He plans to present a solution for it, making money for his company, saving his job, and turning himself into a hero. But, of course, things go awry as the virus takes on a life of its own. Kunzru's details of the technology are thrilling and accessible, bringing to mind William Gibson's classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (Ace, 1984). The point of view switches to other characters to show the effects of the virus on a more personal level. Ultimately, this is a mainstream-style novel with strong characters and situations that has just enough science-fiction elements to satisfy readers of both genres.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　–Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale

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• 作者：路边小石杜辉 发布时间：2023-08-03 22:18:52

  画风尚可，故事架构也凑合，但细节还有许多不足。

• 作者：毛毛 发布时间：2015-10-27 21:28:13

  简直太适合我现在不想看字又爱看故事的心情了。赶快再去下几本

• 作者：SONGline 发布时间：2011-11-08 10:06:15

  公司必备

• 作者：Miao_z喵喵 发布时间：2024-03-09 01:19:32

  很喜欢刁老师和另外两位老师一起出的新书，这次也是干货满满的一本诚意之作。这本书由浅入深的讲解了马克笔的上色技巧，无论是单体还是场景都有详细的步骤示范。不同于市面其他的教材，我最喜欢的是马克笔和彩铅这种不同材质混搭的讲解，以及不同的质感的单体家具表现（例如皮质的和金属质感的家具）。这些内容都非常实用，常看常新，无论是新手还是熟手都能有收获。

• 作者：影武者 发布时间：2020-10-02 14:28:44

  1、在人心最脆弱的地方才会出现兽，居然貌似感觉看了《七宗罪》。

  2、毛豆一直去寻找“多莉"，谁料自己却被称为“多莉"，现在我正在想象她生无可恋的表情。

• 作者：疏影森林 发布时间：2019-06-06 14:33:39

  对新手起入门引导作用，挺好。

• 没有爱与陪伴的日子，是对生命的一种辜负

  作者：默扉 发布时间：2019-01-14 17:50:21

  这大概是我读过的最短的独立成书的故事，短到一个午休的时间没有过完，便翻到了最后一页；这大概也是我读完沉浸其中最长的故事，长到故事结束，却使得心绪久久不能回转。

  巴克曼的故事确实看过不少，从蝉联畅销榜的《一个叫欧维的男人决定去死》《外婆的道歉信》、《清单人生》这些温暖人心的佳作，到最近刚刚出版的《熊镇》这个让人伤痛之中却又无形力量的新著，都让我们不得不承认，巴克曼真的是一个很会讲故事的人，他可以用着平淡无波的叙述，“轻轻巧巧”地将一个故事讲进人们的内心深处。

  

  巴克曼带给我们的新故事

  这一次，巴克曼给我们讲述的是一个什么样的故事呢？其实，说它是一个故事，不如说它更像是一件礼物，如它的名字一样，它是一件来自于时间的礼物，一件来自于生命的礼物。全书一共55页的《时间的礼物》，还是算上了中间穿插着的一幅幅精美插画。也正是走了这些温馨插画的陪衬，让这个故事仿佛童话一般，一个给成人阅读的童话，一个可以使人荡涤心灵的童话。

  可是，就是这样一个短小精悍的故事，竟然可以蕴藏着如此蓬勃而深刻的力量，那种可以连接生死，震撼生命的力量。

  

  故事其实很简单，一个事业有成的中年男人，一个纯真善良的小小女孩，还有一件收治着他们的医院。男人与女孩都是因为患了癌症而在这里住院，女孩面对疾病和死亡的淡泊与坦然，即使知道自己命不久矣，仍然可以和妈妈一起谈笑风生，让人着实看着心痛，也许在死神面前，没有人可以去改变什么，这种无力感，让人越发觉得无可奈何。

  看着女孩和妈妈每天相处的日常，男人也想起了自己的儿子，想起了往日温馨的时光，还有错过的陪伴。于是当死神在那个文件夹上划去小女孩名字的时候，男人不顾一切的夺走了文件夹，企图用一命去换一命，然而，哪能那么简单呢，死神告诉他，不能用一命换一命，只能用一生去换一生。

  时间，从不会为任何人回转和停留

  其实当看到“用一生换一生”的时候，我心里无比疑惑。什么是一生换一生？怎样才是用一生去换一生呢？看到后来才明白，这一生换一生的代价竟如此沉重，那就代表着——这世间，从未出现过这个人，完完全全的被抹去，与之有关的人，将全都不再存有相关的记忆。

  马丁·海德格尔在《存在与时间》中曾说：“向死而生的意义是：当你无限接近死亡，才能深切体会生的意义。”

  

  生的意义为何？这一直都是一个过于深奥的难解之题，即便每个人对生命意义的看法和解释会各不相同，但我想，所有人都不能否认的是，爱与陪伴对于生命的重要性。

  时间，从来都是个一往无前的勇士，它不懂得回头，也从不会等谁，这一秒过去了，便再也不会重来，可以相伴的日子过去了，便只能心存怅然。在可以珍惜的时光里，也许我们更应该尽自己所能，去给珍爱之人难能可贵的陪伴，才会在不得不去做出选择之时，让自己不再那样遗憾，让生命和时光，可以不被辜负。

  《时间的礼物》其实是一封父亲写给儿子的信——“嗨，我是你爸爸”，在这个美好的平安夜，还有往后的日子里，虽然这个奢望有些渺茫，但还是希望能够不被“你”忘记。

  随着男人和死神的纵身一跃，故事也进入尾声，看完最后一句“还有，我爱你”，竟然不知不觉潸然泪下。感谢巴克曼的这个小故事，更感谢他带给我的礼物，这个礼物如此之重，让人心灵为之震撼，它告诉我们太多太多，关于亲情，关于时间，关于陪伴，关于生命。其实就算到这里，我依然无法明白的解释生的意义到底是什么，但是我清楚的懂得了我应该去做什么。

  愿这时间的礼物能被珍爱，愿这生的时光不被辜负。

• 下雨的书店：唯阅读与想象不可抛

  作者：爱心树童书 发布时间：2018-11-13 16:37:39

  热爱读书的孩子可能从小就整日泡在书店里，他们倚在墙角、坐在书架通道上，如饥似渴地读书。对于他们来说，书店像家一样熟悉。但，有人听说过下雨的书店吗？

  

  书店里下着雨？这怎么可能嘛！单单是书被淋湿，滴滴答答落下水珠就够让人头疼的了。

  

  但在充满想象力的童话世界里，爱丽丝的眼泪可以变成大海，有一丁点魔法粉末就可以和彼得潘一起飞去永无乡，那么书店里当然就可以下雨啦。而且，下雨的书店中的书可一点都不怕雨水……

  由雨水浇灌而成的书

  在下雨的书店中，书是由雨水浇灌而成的。

  水存在于世上的一切事物之中，见证着无数故事，又蒸发化作云，降落成雨。所以雨水中饱含着故事和回忆。

  比如说璐子妹妹摔了一跤哭了，那些泪水就一点点蒸发到空气中，升到天空变成了云，然后再变成雨，重新落回地面……也许现在落在我手上的这一滴，就是很久以前你摔跤时流下的眼泪；抑或是有一只正看着你的猫，打了个哈欠，挤出来的一滴泪珠；还有可能是从公园樱花树的叶子上滴落到猫额头上的一颗露珠。

  

  （欢迎来到下雨的书店）

  下雨的书店就用饱含着故事的雨水浇灌故事种子，使它成长为一本“雨书”。

  而不同的雨水浇灌出不同的故事——被悲伤浸染的雨水，会浇灌出令人悲伤的故事；经历过喜悦的雨水，会浇灌出令人开心的故事；有的雨水还能编成每一句话都像谜语一样、具有神奇魔力的故事。

  

  也许，你还会在这里发现独属于自己的故事……

  凭想象力去大冒险

  在下雨的书店，想象力是至高的力量。

  你可以骑着鲸鱼飞上星空，仅凭一个念头就让玻璃火车呜呜开动，穿上蝙蝠雨衣展开黑色的翅膀高速滑翔，还能亲眼看一看故事还是颗种子时的模样……

  来到这里的朋友们可要小心了，因为你任何一个想象都有可能成真，而世界正在屏息等待，等着你踏上冒险的旅程。

  

  （在图书馆里迷路的璐子）

  当然，你绝不是自己一个人孤零零去冒险，在下雨的书店，有几位爱书的新朋友——

  渡渡鸟店主古本先生学识渊博，以阅读为终生志愿，整天坐在书桌前读书。精灵助手舞舞子精心呵护故事种子，制作雨书，打理书店的一切事务。

  

  （店主古本先生和精灵助手舞舞子小姐）

  调皮的青鸟男孩星丸虽然嘴上说读书枯燥，却每次都义不容辞地踏上拯救书店的大冒险。

  

  （青鸟化身的男孩星丸）

  就连故事里的大反派的恶行，居然也出自对书强烈的爱……

  书中人物对书的浓厚情感不仅感染着主人公璐子。

  日本读者也纷纷反馈，阅读《下雨的书店》让他们对书的世界有了浪漫的遐想，并开始在阅读中倾注更多的时间和情感，学会“乘着想象力的翅膀，去寻找自己的故事。”（日本亚马逊读者）