A darkly compulsive story about records and race, music and murder, from the author of The Impressionist.
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.
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*
Think of it as a socially-aware Goosebumps book for grown-ups
*Shortlist*
What begins as dude-bro send-up soon spirals into a supernatural
revenge fantasy keyed to America's history of racism
*Observer*
A captivating satire about race and music
*The Week, Novel of the Week*
Both like a radical revenge fantasia and a stern lesson in radical
empathy
*Spectator*
Kunzru's awareness and discernment have particular value in an
America of the moment where nothing less than the country's meaning
is at stake... unmoored between the heart that's felt it and the
tip of the tongue that awaits the heart's transmission, in search
of a promise that's determined to keep itself
*The New York Times*
A witty, strange and often very moving book
*Financial Times*
Deep themes on the nature of memory, race and authenticity
*The Times*
A brave book and often very funny
*Sunday Telegraph*
[An] excellent ghost story... A mesmerising tale of white guilt and
black oppression in America
*Evening Standard*
A nightmarish page-turner... A disorientating odyssey through
American history and a lesson in what happens when art is hijacked
for less than noble aims
*Daily Telegraph*
This rich novel embraces the Deep South, a murder and a wealthy
family's dark secret, while riffing on art and authenticity
*Mail on Sunday*
Full of verve and rhythm, White Tears cleverly skewers ideas about
angst surrounding white appropriation of black music
*Financial Times*
A fast-paced, ambitious, hallucinatory mystery
*Publishers Weekly*
Marvellous, original and intelligent. Kunzru writes like a master
storyteller... There's simply nothing [he] couldn't manage in
prose
*Literary Review*
Publisher's description. Electrifying, subversive and wildly
original, White Tears is a ghost story and a love story, a story
about lost innocence and historical guilt. This unmissable novel
penetrates the heart of a nation's darkness, encountering a
suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge and exploitation, and
holding a mirror up to the true nature of America today.
*Penguin*
Compulsively readable, masterly - a tour de force
*Rachel Kushner*
Riveting from the very first page, I was completely addicted... A
literary thriller and a timely, unsparing excavation of the very
real spectre of race in America's past and present. White Tears is
proof that Kunzru is one of the finest novelists of his
generation...
*Mirza Waheed*
Hari Kunzru is an incredibly versatile writer who is alert to the
inequalities in the world... Powerful and complex, White Tears is a
novel about abuses of wealth and power. Brilliantly orchestrated,
unforgettable and devastating
*Bernardine Evaristo*
Hari Kunzru is one of our most important novelists
*Independent on Sunday*
Kunzru's engagingly wired prose and agile plotting sweep all before
them
*New Yorker*
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