About the Book: Love and Loathing in Silicon Valley: A Novel
The year is 2003. Ved, a 36-year-old Indian in Silicon Valley, works for
Omnicon, the worlds largest computer networking company. He finds his colleagues
false bravado and pretensions to changing the world both sad and comical. As the
Dotcom Crash starts exposing the hypocrisies of his profession, Ved must deal
with the turmoil in his relationships with Sasha, a Russian escort and an
ambitious immigrant like himself, and Liz, a spiritual-liberal American, with
whom he can freely talk about books, politics, art and the meaning of life. As
Ved is reevaluating his life choices, his