· To these books we can add Hari Kunzru’s gorgeous and wise “Gods Without Men.” This is Kunzru’s fourth novel. It is many things, and it is certainly a reflection and an embodiment of our Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. About Gods Without Men. In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing It is God without men. —Honoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed—but not Pages: · GODS WITHOUT MEN. by Hari Kunzru ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 6, Hopscotching across time, looking quizzically at space, Kunzru’s marvelous novel uses diverse cultures (Native American, Catholic, Mormon, Wall Street, hippie UFO believers) to speculate on the nature of reality and religion, magic and mystery. The novel is anchored by a time, a place and a relationship.
Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape-shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh-and-blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, it is, above all, a heartfelt exploration. GODS WITHOUT MEN. Hopscotching across time, looking quizzically at space, Kunzru's marvelous novel uses diverse cultures (Native American, Catholic, Mormon, Wall Street, hippie UFO believers) to speculate on the nature of reality and religion, magic and mystery. The novel is anchored by a time, a place and a relationship. Gods Without Men's more immediate cousin is David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. That novel was compared to a Russian doll, spawning tales within tales; Kunzru's narrative, also fractured, is however more intricate, and resembles the description of his Arab actors in the desert - "tiny moving parts, like cogs in a watch.".
To these books we can add Hari Kunzru’s gorgeous and wise “Gods Without Men.” This is Kunzru’s fourth novel. It is many things, and it is certainly a reflection and an embodiment of our. Gods Without Men is a book of many stories, spanning hundreds of years from the ’s until The narratives are involving, often gripping and peopled by characters you largely care about. They cover a wide variety of themes from stock market manipulation, UFO’s, the Iraq war, colonisation and hippy cults, to autism and a myriad of human relationships. Gods Without Men is Hari Kunzru's fourth novel, first published in The title is taken from a quote by Honoré de Balzac. The novel is set in the American southwest, and contains elements of magical realism. Plot.
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