Mohsin Hamid Libri

Nadia e Saeed cercano di mantenere vivo il loro amore fragile mentre la guerra civile devasta il loro mondo. Si narra di misteriose porte che conducono verso una nuova speranza. Mohsin Hamid crea un romanzo tenero e spietato, capace di dare un senso a tempi di disorientamento con la potenza visionaria della grande letteratura. In una città affollata di rifugiati, Saeed, timido e goffo, incontra Nadia in un’aula scolastica, ma ci mette tempo per parlarle. La guerra, che distrugge la loro città, accelera il loro avvicinamento, e tra i conflitti, scoprono di essere innamorati. Mentre la morte sembra l'unico orizzonte, si diffonde la voce di porte misteriose che, a rischio della vita, possono trasportarli in un altro luogo. Inizia così il loro viaggio per sopravvivere in un mondo che li vuole morti, mantenendo la loro umanità e il loro legame. Hamid riesce a mostrare il quadro globale dei cambiamenti attuali, mentre si concentra sulle delicate vite degli individui, raccontando la fragile tenerezza di un amore giovane. Con una narrazione che ricorda i classici dell'Ottocento, Hamid affronta l'universale della Storia attraverso le esperienze personali, creando un'opera sconvolgente che dà senso a questi tempi confusi.

A portrait of contemporary Pakistan featuring an adulterous romance between two ultra-rich jet setters. He is a banker and she is the wife of his best friend, and she is escaping the constraints of marriage and motherhood by prowling the city as a journalist.

From impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, our nameless hero amasses an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else: the pretty girl whose star rises along with his, their paths crossing and recrossing, a lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the forces that careen their fates along.

Changez, a young Muslim American, is living the American dream, with a Princeton education and high-paying job, until the events of September 11th force him to confront his personal allegiances.

From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbours, friends, and family will greet them. Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded overturning of the established order that must be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss and unease wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading- a chance at a kind of rebirth - an opportunity to see ourselves, face to face, anew. The Last White Man uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence it allows, a migration of consciousness powerfully enacted by the novel itself.

'When I was younger, I thought of being a migrant and being foreign as things that made me different, an outsider. Now, I think these experiences are increasingly universal ... ' Since 2000 novelist Mohsin Hamid has been writing about what it means to be an individual in an increasingly fragmented world. In the pieces gathered here he gives us a portrait of a man coming to terms with not only his place in that world but also how its convulsions and changes shape so many of us - for good and ill. Whether writing of his home life, about being a migrant or of today's geopolitical fault lines, Hamid gives us his deeply personal take on life at the beginning of the 21st century.