My Revolutions, Hari Kundzru
My Revolutions, Hari Kundzru
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My Revolutions

Author: Hari Kundzru

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/24/2008


Synopsis

An award-winning novelist looks back at the sixties to answer the question "What turns a radical into a terrorist?"

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 clue that as a radical student in the sixties, he briefly became a terrorist, protesting the Vietnam War by setting bombs around London. Chris believes he has left his past behind—until he sees the ghost of a dead ex-lover. Shortly after, an old friend turns up on his doorstep, wanting to reminisce and hinting at blackmail. Chris must escape all over again.

On the run, he remembers his days as an isolated, idealistic youth, hopelessly in love with Anna Addison, competing for her affections with Sean Ward, charismatic leader of the radical August 14th Group. Ideologies collided and lines blurred until the events of one horrifying night forced them apart forever. Now Chris wonders: Who was he? Who is he? What side was he on back then? Which side is he on today?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin

Chris Carver is intent on escaping his terrorist past, but fate, piloted by Miles Bridgeman, has other plans. I love the way Hari Kunzru juxtaposes '70's counter-culture with '90's complacency. None of Kunzru's characters are especially likable, but that plays well with the novel's neo-noirish feel.......more

Goodreads review by Ian

A Moral Calculus of Revolutionary Violence It was beneficial to read this novel after William Vollmann’s “You Bright and Risen Angels” and Norman Mailer’s Miami and the Siege of Chicago”. Even more so, it deserves comparison with John Banville’s “The Untouchable” (which is one of my favour......more

Goodreads review by Janet

An exceptionally exciting and well-written novel about the radical seventies, the novel begins with a man quietly living as middle-class husband and father, when his past intrudes into the carefully-crafted, quiet life he has constructed for himself in the boosterish post-Thatcher England of the lat......more

Goodreads review by Ranendu

||রাষ্ট্রশক্তি এবং তাকে পালটে দেওয়ার স্বপ্ন-সংঘাত|| [ My Revolution by Hari Kunzru, Hamish Hamilton, 2007] 17th March, 1968 লন্ডনের সকাল। প্রায় দশহাজার প্রতিবাদী মানুষের একটি দল একে একে এসে দাড়াল ট্রাফালগার স্কোয়ারে! বিভিন্ন যুদ্ধবিরোধী স্বেচ্ছাসেবী সংস্থা, শান্তিকামী মানুষ, কলেজ ও বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়......more

Goodreads review by Nigeyb

An incredible achievement, brilliantly written, skilful, subtle, well researched, very evocative of the era, and compelling In October 2015, I was casting about for a book about revolutionary terrorists operating in the 1970s, and in particular the Angry Brigade. I know, I know. Welcome to my world.......more