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

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Mohsin Hamid,

Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd (Publisher)

Published

2014

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Biography, Literature and Literary studies Biography and non-fiction prose

By: Mohsin Hamid | Publisher: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd | Released: 05 Dec 2014

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Foreign Policy’s 100 leading global thinkers in 2013
‘We’re born with an in-built capacity for language. It is wired into our
brains, just as an in-built capacity for breathing is wired into our lungs.
We need language. We need language to tell stories. We need stories to
create a self.’
Alongside his highly acclaimed novels, Mohsin Hamid has written superb
pieces over the years about politics, literature, and his own life. Collected
together for the first time, they show that Hamid is not just a great novelist
but ‘a master critic of the modern global condition’. Provocative, dexterous,
full of ideas – this is a sparkling collection.

About the Author

Mohsin Hamid is the author of Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. His fiction has been adapted for the cinema, 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 the New Yorker. 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.