It's the day before Mike Frame's fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn't matter, because it's not his life in the first place. He has a past that his partner Miranda and step-daughter Sam know nothing about, lived under another name amidst the turbulence of the revolutionary armed struggle of the 1970s. Now Mike is seeing ghosts—a dead ex-lover and an old friend who wants to reminisce. Miranda, who once spoke about alternative lifestyles with the emphasis on alternative, rather than lifestyles, is reinventing herself as a thrusting nineties businesswoman. Mike can no longer ignore the contradiction between who he is and who he once was. Which side was he on back then? And which side is he on now?
Gripping, moving, provocative and passionate, My Revolutions brings to brilliant life both the radical idealism of the post-'68 generation and the darker currents which ran beneath it, the eddies of which still shape our history today.
1998. The Age of Radical Politics is over. The Age of Shopping has begun. Chris Carver, aka Michael Frame, is living the quiet suburban life when his revolutionary past comes back to haunt him. First, he glimpses a one-time lover he believes was killed thirty years earlier. Next, an encounter with an old acquaintance disquiets him. On the run again, he flashes back to life in the late '60s--the people, the protests, the riots, the bombings, and his youthful gullibility. Golden Voice Simon Prebble provides insights into na•veté and wisdom in Kunzru's outstanding exploration into the cyclical nature of idealism, revolution, betrayal, and change. Kunzru's lyrical clarity gives Prebble's artistry the chance to soar, his subtlety and finesse highlighting every vivid moment. Must listening. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
Sunday Telegraph (UK)...
An urgent and passionate piece of work… fairly afire with an anger on behalf of the world's dispossessed and powerless that is so conspicuously absent from much cozy and collusive current fiction.
The Guardian...
A quick-witted, memorable book.
John Banville, bestselling author of The Sea...
My Revolutions is a sharp reminder, as sharp as tomorrow's headlines, of how the past will insist on haunting the present. Hari Kunzru writes a clear, clean, elegant prose, and his presentation of political realities is worryingly real.
About the Author
HARI KUNZRU is the author of The Impressionist, Transmission, and the short story collection Noise, and was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, 2003. He is a contributing editor of Mute magazine and sits on the executive council of English Pen. He lives in East London.
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