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Britishborn kunzru recently moved from london to new york, where he is a fellow at the new york public librarys cullman center for scholars and writers. After three earlier novels and a book of stories, kunzru has, in gods without men, written a distinctly american novel worthy of comparison with the best work of these two. Gods without men in the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing. Listen to gods without men audiobook by hari kunzru.
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