White Tears - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Hari Kunzru (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Two ambitious young musicians are drawn into the dark underworld of blues-record collecting while navigating the fallout of a scam involving one's claim that a viral video of an unknown singer is a long-lost recording of a famous blues musician.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b>A PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD FINALIST <p/>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post - San Francisco Chronicle <b>- </b>NPR - GQ - Time - The Economist - Slate - HuffPost - Book Riot <p/></b></b>Ghost story, murder mystery, love letter to American music--<i>White Tears</i> is all of this and more, a thrilling investigation of race and appropriation in society today.<b><b><i> <p/></i></b></b>Seth is a shy, awkward twentysomething. Carter is more glamorous, the heir to a great American fortune. But they share an obsession with music--especially the blues. One day, Seth discovers that he's accidentally recorded an unknown blues singer in a park. Carter puts the file online, claiming it's a 1920s recording by a made-up musician named Charlie Shaw. But when a music collector tells them that their recording is genuine--that there really was a singer named Charlie Shaw--the two white boys, along with Carter's sister, find themselves in over their heads, delving deeper and deeper into America's dark, vengeful heart. White Tears is a literary thriller and a meditation on art--who owns it, who can consume it, and who profits from it.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>White Tears</i> is distinguished by a knowledge of blues at its deepest, a gift for observation at its most penetrating and stretches of plain old marvelous writing, some swallowing up the pages around them the way a single song . . . swallows up the side of an album. . . . Kunzru brings a canny and original insight to his American subject. . . . [His] awareness and discernment have particular value in an America of the moment where nothing less than the country's meaning is at stake."--Steve Erickson, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br> <i> </i><br><i>White Tears</i> is a book that everyone should be reading right now. . . . The reverberations of [this book] echo long after it's done. Part ghost story, part travelogue, <i>White Tears</i> is a drugged-out, spoiled-rotten treatise on race, class and poverty of the soul.--Claire Howorth, <i>TIME</i> <p/>[<i>White Tears</i> is] a novel that's as brave as it is brutal, and it lets nothing and nobody off the hook. . . . Stunning [and] audacious . . . an urgent novel that's as challenging as it is terrifying. . . . completely impossible to put down . . . [Kunzru's] writing is propulsive, clear and bright, whether he's describing an old blues song or a shocking act of violence. . . . [<i>White Tears</i>] will shock you, horrify you, unsettle you, and that's exactly the point.--Michael Schaub, NPR <p/>[A] truly impressive novel. . . . <i>White Tears</i> is Kunzru's best book yet.--Anthony Domestico, <i>The Boston Globe</i> <p/>Captivating. . . . Kunzru's graceful writing is exquisitely attuned to his material. . . . [<i>White Tears</i> is] neither a clever <i>Time and Again</i> story of time travel nor a tricky <i>Westworld</i> sort of past-present parallel. <i>White Tears</i> is a profoundly darker and more complex story of a haunting that elucidates the iniquitous history of white appropriation of black culture.--Katharine Weber, <i>The Washington Post <p/></i>An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America's racial conscience.--Rabeea Saleem, <i>Chicago Review of Books </i><br> <i> </i><br>Simply extraordinary. . . . Kunzru is a master storyteller and this is both a thrillingly written ghost story and an exploration of race conflict in America which is surely one of the best books you will read this year. Don't miss it.--Alice O'Keeffe, <i>The Bookseller</i> (Book of the Month pick)<br> <i> </i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>HARI KUNZRU </b>is the author of four previous novels. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages, and his short stories and journalism have appeared in many publications, including <i>The New York Times, The Guardian, </i> and <i>The New Yorker</i>. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The New York Public Library, and the American Academy in Berlin. He lives in Brooklyn.
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