Gods Without Men (Hardcover 9780307957115) by Hari Kunzru

from Jeank1rk

Wow. This is some book! I loved how challenging it was, though I have to admit that I was a little disappointed that the ending left one very big question hanging. Shouldn't have been surprised, though: it was not the sort of book in which everything gets neatly worked out.

from jayne_charles

This was mind expanding literature, it's got my brain going round in a whirl. Vast in scale, it centres its action around a distinctive rock formation in the Californian desert, but flips backwards and forwards in time, covering almost 250 years in total. Characters come from a vast array of cult...

from colligan

Bottom line, God's without Men is an excellent read. Well written, compelling, intelligent, and thought provoking. It leads one to consider relationships, spirituality, parenting, history and ultimately the grey areas of reality itself. If you're hung up with easy resolutions, conclusive plots, a...

from SulfurDog

Just as an aside: I was puzzled by those who found little connection in the different time frames in this novel. Early on the book readily reminded me of Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, where I found the connections to be very tenuous or for that matter non-existent, whereas here the overriding constant ...

from Perednia

"Only connect," as E.M. Forster wrote in Howards End, to "live in fragments no more" is a wish that's appears to be a plea against the fractured, chaotic and constantly in motion life in the 21st century First World. Hari Kunzru's fourth novel, Gods Without Men, is written in fragments of differe...