Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New

Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

From â€œone of his generationâ€™s most inventive and gifted writersâ€ (The New York Times), intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and â€œthe war on terror.â€
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Mohsin Hamidâ€™s brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international bestseller, they have earned him a reputation as a â€œmaster critic of the modern global conditionâ€ (Foreign Policy). His stories are at once timeless and of-the-moment, and his themes are universal: love, language, ambition, power, corruption, religion, family, identity. Here he explores this terrain from a different angle in essays that deftly counterpoise the personal and the political, and are shot through with the same passion, imagination, and breathtaking shifts of perspective that gives his fiction its unmistakable electric charge.
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A â€œwater lilyâ€ who has called three countries on three continents his homeâ€”Pakistan, the birthplace to which he returned as a young father; the United States, where he spent his childhood and young adulthood; and Britain, where he married and became a citizenâ€”Hamid writes about overlapping worlds with fluidity and penetrating insight. Whether he is discussing courtship rituals or pop culture, drones or the rhythms of daily life in an extended family compound, he transports us beyond the scarifying headlines of an anxious West and a volatile East, beyond stereotype and assumption, and helps to bring a dazzling diverse global culture within emotional and intellectual reach.
Country USA
Manufacturer Riverhead Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2015-02-24
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594633652

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2015-02-24
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781594633652

Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

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