Mohsin Hamid

"In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors--doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price"--

A Novel

Exit West

Follows the journey of a young, impoverished boy in an unspecified Asian nation to the top of the corporate world and the twists and turns of his relationship with a beautiful woman.

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

“Gorgeously crafted, morally authoritative, The Last White Man concludes on a note of hope, a door jarred open just enough to let transcendence pour through, literature’s mission incarnate.” –O, the Oprah Magazine From the New York Times bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an established order, to be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders’s father and Oona’s mother, a sense of profound loss wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance to see one another, face to face, anew. In Hamid’s “lyrical and urgent” prose (O Magazine), The Last White Man invites us to envision a future – our future – that dares to reimagine who we think we are, and how we might yet be together.

The Last White Man

The Man Booker-shortlisted, thrillingly provocative international bestseller - adapted to a major motion picture starring Kiefer Sutherland - from the author of Exit West 'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America . . . ' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear . . . Challenging, mysterious and thrillingly tense, Mohsin Hamid's masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today's globalised, fractured world.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is the award-winning international bestseller by Mohsin Hamid.NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE HUDSON AND KIEFER SUTHERLANDSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2007'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America . . . 'So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For her is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear . . .Praise for The Reluctant Fundamentalist: 'Beautifully written . . . more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time' Philip Pullman'Admirably spare and amazingly exciting' Rachel Cooke, New Statesman'Sharp, relevant, impressively intelligent . . . entertains at the same time as it makes you think' Daily Telegraph'A cleverly constructed fable of infatuation and disenchantment . . . Intelligent and highly engaging, genuinely provocative' Guardian'A brilliant book' Kiran Desai'Prods the intellect, quickens the pace and captures the imagination' Sunday TimesMohsin Hamid is the author of three novels: The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages, received numerous awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as the Guardian, The New York Times, Financial Times, Granta, and Paris Review. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived between Lahore, London, and New York.

Clever but troubled, Daru loses his job as a banker in Lahore and spirals down into drug addiction and dealing, where he encounters Mumtaz, the wife of a rival and a journalist who also haunts the means streets. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Moth Smoke

The author offers essays that discuss the similarities and differences in everyday living between the three countries he was able to call home at different periods of his life: America, Pakistan and England. By the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

Discontent and Its Civilizations

Il fondamentalista riluttante

Lektüre. Ab 11. Schuljahr

Last White Man

"[A] tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, [stealing] its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over 'rising Asia'"--Dust jacket flap.

Frans van der Wiel

Een jonge Pakistaan begint een succesvolle carrière in New York, maar beseft steeds duidelijker dat hij uit een andere cultuur komt waaruit hij zich niet kan losmaken.

De val van een fundamentalist

Exit väst

« Exit West è una tale sberla emotiva che continuerete a pensarci per giorni. Perché Hamid non vi sta soltanto raccontando una storia, vi sta chiedendo in che mondo volete vivere». «The Bookseller» «Straordinario». Zadie Smith

Gönülsüz Köktendinci

Finalista do Man Booker Prize 2007 e do Commonwealth Writers Prize Uma noite, num café em Lahore, o narrador conhece um homem misterioso. Este convida-o para tomar um chá e conta-lhe uma história. É o relato da sua ida para a América, quando era jovem, e de como abraçou o sonho ocidental. O primeiro da sua turma em Princeton, foi contratado por uma corporação de topo e prospera em Nova Iorque. E a sua paixão pela bonita e elegante Erica é uma promessa de entrada na alta sociedade de Manhattan. Mas, após o 11 de Setembro, a sua identidade sofre uma mudança, revelando fidelidades mais fortes do que o dinheiro, o poder e talvez até mesmo o amor por Erica. Quando anoitece, o narrador assiste ao desvanecer do sonho e da vida daquele homem já menos misterioso, bem como ao desfilar dos seus sentimentos de raiva e traição. Por fim, as razões para aquele chá tornam-se absolutamente claras... Livro da década para o The Guardian Melhor livro do ano para o The Washington Post e o San Francisco Chronicle

O Fundamentalista Relutante

Een vlijmscherpe roman over liefde en identiteit

De laatste witte man

As people across the land awaken in new incarnations, Anders, whose skin turns dark, confides only in Oona, an old friend turned new lover, deciding to use this as chance at a kind of rebirth, in this novel of transcendence over bigotry, fear, and anger.

The last white man

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Traditonal Chinese version of Exit West, a novel about migration and mutation, full of wormholes and rips in reality, begins as it mostly doesn't go on.

Mohsin Hamid

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