Discontent and its Civilizations
Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
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Discontent and its Civilizations
Letto da:
Mohsin Hamid
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Mohsin Hamid
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Mohsin Hamid
A proposito di questo titolo
Mohsin Hamid’s brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international bestseller, they have earned him a reputation as a “master critic of the modern global condition” (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.
A “water lily” who has called three countries on three continents his home—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 citizen—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.
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Praise for Discontent and its Civilizations
"Smart doesn’t begin to describe Hamid; he is the sort of thinker that could change hearts and minds."—Booklist
“Honest and candid…Passion and hope infuse Hamid's most incisive dispatches.”—Kirkus Reviews
Praise for How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
“A showcase for its author’s audacious talents…both an affecting and highly specific tale of love and ambition, and a larger metaphorical look at the startling social and economic changes that are…changing the lives of millions.”
—Michiko Kakutani, “10 Favorite Books of 2013,” The New York Times
“Extraordinarily clever.” —The Washington Post
“Marvelous and moving.” —Time
"Smart doesn’t begin to describe Hamid; he is the sort of thinker that could change hearts and minds."—Booklist
“Honest and candid…Passion and hope infuse Hamid's most incisive dispatches.”—Kirkus Reviews
Praise for How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
“A showcase for its author’s audacious talents…both an affecting and highly specific tale of love and ambition, and a larger metaphorical look at the startling social and economic changes that are…changing the lives of millions.”
—Michiko Kakutani, “10 Favorite Books of 2013,” The New York Times
“Extraordinarily clever.” —The Washington Post
“Marvelous and moving.” —Time
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