The Last White Man
The New York Times Bestseller 2022
$23.64
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
5 September 2023
Summary
From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241995556 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241995558 |
| Author: | Mohsin Hamid |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 5 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man is a visionary novel exploring race and identity… it’s another bracing achievement from a consummate master, its silken prose breathing fresh air into fusty debates about race and identity * Oprah Daily *A hypnotic race fable … In the hands of such a deft and humane writer as Hamid, a bizarre construct is moved far beyond any mere ‘what if’ * Guardian *The electric premise, borrowed from Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, looks set to update a classic to make it urgently relevant * Evening Standard *[A] powerful contemporary update of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis – A Financial Times Book of the Year
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 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.
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