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Discontent and Its Civilizations

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241146323

  • Length: 208  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 149g

  • RRP: £10.99

Discontent and Its Civilizations

  • Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London

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'.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241146323

  • Length: 208  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 149g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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About the Author

Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid writes regularly for The New York Times, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books, and is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Discontent and its Civilisations. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he has since lived between Lahore, London and New York. His next novel, Exit West, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in spring 2017.

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Works from Mohsin Hamid, Arundhati Roy, Ali Smith and Zadie Smith selected for Man Booker Prize 2017 longlist
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Mohsin Hamid on the politics of fiction

Mohsin Hamid's Exit West tells the story of a young couple forced to flee a civil war. He speaks to us about migration, and the power of fiction to change perspectives
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Extracts

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

What do divisions matter in a world full of doors? Read Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, a tale of love and hope, travelling from the Middle East to London and beyond

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