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

Hamid, Mohsin

ISBN 10: 0241146321 / ISBN 13: 9780241146323

Published by Penguin Books, Limited, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discontent and Its Civilizations : Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London
• Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241146321
• ISBN 13: 9780241146323
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.37 pounds

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Synopsis

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'.

About the Author

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.