Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New

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

From the bestselling author ofÂ How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, andÂ Exit West, coming in March 2017, â€œa near-perfect essay collection, filled with insight, compassion, and intellect." (NPR)
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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 Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-02-24
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-02-24
Format	Kindle eBook

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

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