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Plume
January 2009
On Sale: December 30, 2008
288 pages ISBN: 0452290023 EAN: 9780452290020 Trade Size
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Suspense Psychological | Literature and Fiction Literary
βPowerfulβ (The New Yorker), βextraordinaryβ (The New York Times Book Review), and βbrilliantβ (Entertainment Weekly)βyou wonβt be able to put down this new novel by the award-winning bestselling author of The Impressionist
Critics have compared him to Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, Tom Wolfe, and Don DeLillo. Granta dubbed him βone of the twenty best fiction writers under forty.β Now Hari Kunzru delivers his best novel yet.
Chris Carver is living a lie. His wife, their teenage daughter, and everyone in their circle know him as Michael Frame, suburban dad. They have no idea that as a radical student during the sixties he briefly became a terroristβ protesting the Vietnam War by setting off bombs. Until one day a ghost from his past turns up on his doorstep, forcing Chris on the run.
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