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An indelible portrait of obsession, music, insanity, and race that draws us into a dark underworld of blues record collecting, haunted by the ghosts of a violent past
Two twentysomething New Yorkers. Seth is awk- ward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America's great fortunes. They have one thing in common: a passion for music. Seth is desperate to hold on to the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. After Seth accidentally records an un- known singer in a park, Carter sends it out over the Internet, claiming it's a long-lost 1920s blues re- cording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old record collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake blues musician are actually real, the two young white men, accompanied by Carter's troubled sister Leonie, spiral down into the heart of the nation's darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge, and exploitation.
Hari Kunzru has been hailed as a "novelist in superb command of his craft" (The Washington Post). With White Tears he has written a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music. White Tears is a haunting tour de force that will linger with you long after you've read the last page.
Two twentysomething New Yorkers. Seth is awk- ward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America's great fortunes. They have one thing in common: a passion for music. Seth is desperate to hold on to the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. After Seth accidentally records an un- known singer in a park, Carter sends it out over the Internet, claiming it's a long-lost 1920s blues re- cording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old record collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake blues musician are actually real, the two young white men, accompanied by Carter's troubled sister Leonie, spiral down into the heart of the nation's darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge, and exploitation.
Hari Kunzru has been hailed as a "novelist in superb command of his craft" (The Washington Post). With White Tears he has written a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music. White Tears is a haunting tour de force that will linger with you long after you've read the last page.