HARI KUNZRU 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 The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New Yorker. 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.
"White Tears 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, The New
York Times Book Review
"White Tears 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, White
Tears is a drugged-out, spoiled-rotten treatise on race, class
and poverty of the soul."—Claire Howorth, TIME
"[White Tears 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. . . .
[White Tears] will shock you, horrify you, unsettle you, and that's
exactly the point."—Michael Schaub, NPR
"[A] truly impressive novel. . . . White Tears is Kunzru’s best
book yet."—Anthony Domestico, The Boston Globe
"Captivating. . . . Kunzru’s graceful writing is exquisitely
attuned to his material. . . . [White Tears is] neither a clever
Time and Again story of time travel nor a tricky Westworld sort of
past-present parallel. White Tears is a profoundly darker and more
complex story of a haunting that elucidates the iniquitous history
of white appropriation of black culture."—Katharine Weber, The
Washington Post
"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, Chicago Review of
Books
"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, The
Bookseller (Book of the Month pick)
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