Now a major motion picture Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize New York Times bestseller
"Extreme times call for extreme reactions, extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary with this novel." --Washington Post "One of those achingly assured novels that makes you happy to be a reader." --Junot Diaz At a cafe table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter . . . Changez is living an immigrant's dream of...
Now a major motion picture Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize New York Times bestseller
Accompanying the first U.S. museum exhibition devoted to contemporary art from Pakistan, this dynamic catalogue provides a groundbreaking look at recent and current trends in Pakistani art. Hanging Fire covers a fascinating range of subjects and media, from installation and video art to sculpture, drawing, and paintings in the "contemporary miniature" tradition. Essays by distinguished contributors from a variety of fields, including Salima Hashmi, Pakistani-American sociologist and historian Ayesha Jalal, and the celebrated novelist Mohsin Hamid, place contemporary Pakistani art in a...
Accompanying the first U.S. museum exhibition devoted to contemporary art from Pakistan, this dynamic catalogue provides a groundbreaking look at rece...
, ein junger Pakistani, trifft einen US-Amerikaner in Lahore. Sie kommen ins Gespräch und Changez berichtet von seinem alten und "erfolgreichen" Leben, damals in den USA vor 9/11. Denn der 11. September hat alles verändert und auf einmal musste Changez sich für eine Seite entscheiden. Der erste Zusatzartikel der amerikanischen Verfassung verbietet explizit die Einmischung der Politik in Religion oder Pressefreiheit - und doch, so scheint es, ist genau das geschehen. The Reluctant Fundementalist befasst sich kritisch mit solchen Fragen zu ethnischer und religiöser Toleranz sowie dem...
, ein junger Pakistani, trifft einen US-Amerikaner in Lahore. Sie kommen ins Gespräch und Changez berichtet von seinem alten und "erfolgreichen" Lebe...
-Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers.- -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times -A globalized version of The Great Gatsby . . . Hamid's] book is nearly that good.- -Alan Cheuse, NPR -Marvelous and moving.- -TIME Magazine From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West, coming March 2017, the boldly imagined tale of a poor boy's quest for wealth and love
His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically inventive storyteller...
-Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers.- -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times -A ...
