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My Revolutions

By Hari Kunzru

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| Hardcover | 9780525949329

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Critics have compared him to Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, Tom Wolfe, and Don DeLillo. Granta dubbed him “one of the twenty best fiction writers under forty.” Now Hari Kunzru delivers his “finest novel yet . . . bringing to the angry activism of the young in the late sixties all the suspense of a spy thContinue

Critics have compared him to Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, Tom Wolfe, and Don DeLillo. Granta dubbed him “one of the twenty best fiction writers under forty.” Now Hari Kunzru delivers his “finest novel yet . . . bringing to the angry activism of the young in the late sixties all the suspense of a spy thriller.” (Lisa Appignanesi, author of Unholy Loves)

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 in the sixties he briefly became a terrorist—protesting the Vietnam War by setting bombs around London. And then one day a ghost from his past turns up on his doorstep, forcing Chris on the run.

As Chris flees, he remembers his days as an isolated youth, hopelessly in love with Anna Addison, following her as she threw aside conventionality. Chris’s rival for Anna’s affections, the charismatic Sean Ward, was the leader of the radical August 14th Group. Egging one another on, the three inched closer and closer to the edge, until the events of one horrifying night forced them apart, never to see one another again.

Gripping, moving, provocative, and passionate, My Revolutions brings to brilliant life both the radical idealism of the sixties and the darker currents that ran beneath it, the eddies of which still shape our history today.

Critics

  • Many unhappy returns for a teenage terrorist

    My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru Hamish Hamilton £16.99, pp278 Mike Frame is approaching with more than usual dread the 50th birthday party his partner of 16 years, Miranda, has organised. There are two specific problems with it: first, he is not Mike F ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Don't call me comrade

    My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru 277pp, Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 Chris Carver, who will later call himself Michael Frame, is a restless young man from suburban west London with "a strong stomach and a streak of low cunning". He is just entering his teens ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0525949321
  • ISBN-13: 9780525949329
  • Publisher: Dutton Adult
  • Pub date: Jan 24, 2008
  • Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback and eBook
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