Accessible, wise and beautifully clear

Metro

Mohsin Hamid is reasonable, intelligent...in short, just the sort of commentator the world could do with right now

Independent

Smart doesn't begin to describe Hamid; he is the sort of thinker that could change hearts and minds

Booklist

Se alle

In contrast with the debased language of extremism, militarism and nationalism, his is a humane and rational voice demanding a better future

Sunday Times

Lucid, informative and drily funny, these essays show that Hamid is one of the most perceptive commentators on contemporary global politics

Sunday Telegraph

<i> </i>One of the most talented writers of his generation

Daily Telegraph

Mohsin Hamid is a master critic of the modern global condition, using humanization, wit, parody and other devices to examine how the fast pace of social and economic change has affected the individual

Foreign Policy

Elegantly crafted . . . will delight devotees of his work, and intrigue newcomers. Hamid makes a compelling case for pushing back against the mono-identities of religion, nationality and race and for embracing the things that all human beings share.

Prospect

The new voice of a changing continent. A writer at the top of his game

Metro

Discontent and its Civilizations collects the best of Mohsin Hamid's writing on subjects as diverse and wide-ranging as Pakistan; fatherhood; the death of Osama Bin Laden and the writing of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.Unified by the author's humane, clear-headed and witty voice, the book makes a compelling case for recognizing our common humanity while relishing our diversity - both as readers and citizens; for resisting the artificial mono-identities of religion or nationality or race; and for always judging a country or nation by how it treats its minorities, as 'Each individual human being is, after all, a minority of one'.
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Presents a compelling case for recognizing our common humanity while relishing our diversity - both as readers and citizens; for resisting the artificial mono-identities of religion or nationality or race; and for always judging a country or nation by how it treats its minorities, as 'Each individual human being is, after all, a minority of one'.
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Accessible, wise and beautifully clear
Whether writing of his home life, about being a migrant or of today's geopolitical fault lines, Hamid gives us his deeply personal take on life at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780241146323
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Books Ltd
Vekt
149 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

MOHSIN HAMID writes regularly for The New York Times, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books, and is the author of Exit West, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Discontent and its Civilizations. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he has since lived between Lahore, London and New York.