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

Autor Mohsin Hamid
en Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 2016 – vârsta de la 18 ani
From the bestselling author of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" and "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia," a near-perfect essay collection, filled with insight, compassion, and intellect." (NPR)
In both his internationally bestselling fiction and his wide-ranging journalism, Mohsin Hamid has earned a reputation as a "master critic of the modern global condition" ("Foreign Policy"). 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), he has achieved a truly
panoramic perspective on the clash of forces - political, economic, religious, cultural - that have transfigured the face of contemporary life and shaken the old certainties about how to navigate it.
In "Discontent and Its Civilizations," Hamid traces the fracture lines generated by a decade and a half of seismic change, from the "war on terror" to the struggles of individuals to maintain humanity in the rigid face of ideology, or the indifferent face of globalization. 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 alarmist headlines of an anxious West and a volatile East and helps to bring a dazzling diverse world within emotional and intellectual reach."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781594634031
ISBN-10: 1594634033
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 130 x 201 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Riverhead Books
Colecția Riverhead
Seria Riverhead


Notă biografică

Mohsin Hamid is the author of the international bestsellers Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, both finalists for the Man Booker Prize. His first novel, Moth Smoke, won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. His essays, a number of them collected as Discontent and Its Civilizations, have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. He lives in Lahore, Pakistan.

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Accessible, wise and beautifully clear
Mohsin Hamid is reasonable, intelligent...in short, just the sort of commentator the world could do with right now
Smart doesn't begin to describe Hamid; he is the sort of thinker that could change hearts and minds
In contrast with the debased language of extremism, militarism and nationalism, his is a humane and rational voice demanding a better future
Lucid, informative and drily funny, these essays show that Hamid is one of the most perceptive commentators on contemporary global politics
One of the most talented writers of his generation
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
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.
The new voice of a changing continent. A writer at the top of his game