{"id":4761,"date":"2004-06-25T20:44:49","date_gmt":"2004-06-26T00:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:48:11","slug":"transmission-by-hari-kunzru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/transmission-by-hari-kunzru\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmission by Hari Kunzru [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/06\/Transmission.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31423\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/06\/Transmission.jpg\" alt=\"Transmission\" width=\"510\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a>With way too many viruses trying to get into my inbox every day, reading <em>Transmission <\/em>has been something of a voyeuristic romp.<\/p>\n<p>Arjun Mehta can\u2019t believe his good luck when he lands a job in Silicon Valley from his native India, but his technical dream is hardly what he expected once he gets there. Twelve daily lattes plus nine Cokes aside, in an attempt to save his job as an assistant tester for anti-virus software, the hapless hero unleashes a virus of his own \u2026 with ramifications that go global [the theme of this month, too \u2013\u00a0going global, that is].<\/p>\n<p><strong> Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-06-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-06-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-06-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">, June 25, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4190\" title=\"Transmission\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/transmission1.jpg\" alt=\"Transmission\" width=\"127\" height=\"193\" \/>With way too many viruses trying to get into my inbox every day, reading <em>Transmission <\/em>has been something of a voyeuristic romp. <\/p>\n<p>Arjun Mehta can\u2019t believe his good luck when he lands a job in Silicon Valley from his native India, but his technical dream is hardly what he expected once he gets there. Twelve daily lattes plus nine Cokes aside, in an attempt to save his job as an assistant tester for anti-virus software, the hapless hero unleashes a virus of his own \u2026 with ramifications that go global [the theme of this month, too \u2013 going global, that is].<\/p>\n<p><strong> Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-06-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-06-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-06-25-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">, June 25, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,330,6,53,6535,18],"tags":[3598,83,6608,10,11,1483,51,25,4664],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-british-asian","category-fiction","category-indian-american","category-repost","category-south-asian-american","tag-asianweek","tag-assimilation","tag-bookdragon","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-hari-kunzru","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-transmission"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Transmission by Hari Kunzru [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/transmission-by-hari-kunzru\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Transmission by Hari Kunzru [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With way too many viruses trying to get into my inbox every day, reading Transmission has been something of a voyeuristic romp.   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