Mohsin Hamid Libri

Nadia e Saeed vogliono tenere in vita il loro amore giovane e fragile mentre la guerra civile divora strade, case, persone. Si narra, però, che esistano porte misteriose che conducono dall'altra parte del mondo, verso una nuova speranza...Mohsin Hamid ha scritto un romanzo tenero e spietato, capace di dare un senso a questi tempi di disorientamento e follia con la potenza visionaria della grande letteratura. Exit West è un libro venuto dal futuro per dirci che nessuna porta può più essere chiusa. «In una città traboccante di rifugiati ma ancora perlopiù in pace, o almeno non del tutto in guerra, un giovane uomo incontrò una giovane donna in un'aula scolastica e non le parlò». Saeed è timido e un po' goffo con le ragazze: cosí, per quanto sia attratto dalla sensuale e indipendente Nadia, ci metterà qualche giorno per trovare il coraggio di rivolgerle la parola. Ma la guerra che sta distruggendo la loro città, strada dopo strada, vita dopo vita, accelera il loro cauto avvicinarsi e, all'infiammarsi degli scontri, Nadia e Saeed si scopriranno innamorati. Quando tra posti di blocco, rastrellamenti, lanci di mortai, sparatorie, la morte appare l'unico orizzonte possibile, inizia a girare una strana voce: esistono delle porte misteriose che se attraversate, pagando e a rischio della vita, trasportano istantaneamente da un'altra parte. Inizia cosí il viaggio di Nadia e Saeed, il loro tentativo di sopravvivere in un mondo che li vuole morti, di restare umani in un tempo che li vuole ridurre a problema da risolvere, di restare uniti quando ogni cosa viene strappata via. Con la stessa naturalezza dello zoom di una mappa computerizzata, Mohsin Hamid sa farci vedere il quadro globale dei cambiamenti planetari che stiamo vivendo e allo stesso tempo stringere sul dettaglio sfuggente e delicato delle vite degli uomini per raccontare la fragile tenerezza di un amore giovane. In un certo senso Hamid ha ripetuto per l'oggi quello che i classici dell'Ottocento, ad esempio Guerra e pace , hanno sempre fatto: raccontare l'universale della Storia attraverso il particolare dei destini individuali, riportare ciò che è frammentario, l'esperienza del singolo, alla compiuta totalità dell'umano. Hamid ha scritto un romanzo di attualità sconvolgente, capace di dare un senso a questi tempi di disorientamento e follia con la potenza visionaria della grande letteratura. Con Exit West , Mohsin Hamid ha scritto il suo capolavoro.

Originally published in hardccover in 2015 by Riverhead Books.

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

'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.

At a café table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting... Among the brightest and best of his graduating class at Princeton, Changez is snapped up by an elite firm and thrives on New York and the intensity of his work. And his infatuation with fragile Erica promises entree into Manhattan society on the exalted footing his own family once held back in Lahore. For a time, it seems as though nothing will stand in the way of Changez's meteoric rise to personal and professional success: the fulfilment of the immigrant's dream. But in the wake of September 11, he finds his position in the city he loves suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and perhaps even love.

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.

This book combines the salient features of the methodology of experiments in psychology, the concepts of general experimental psychology, and the advantages of laboratory manual. It aims at developing in the student the understanding and skill to pose a problem, and to plan and conduct an experiment to answer it. Complete reports of a number of experiments have been given which, though based on hypothetical data, will enable students to realise that every step has a rationale behind it. Accounts of related problems and, in several cases, description of the ways to answer them, supplement the detailed reports. Aware of the importance of group experiments in the world of today, the author has included experiments highlighting some special features of group experiments like selection of sample, design of group experiments and treatment of group data. The author has also taken care to avoid use of costly apparatus to carry out the experiments worked out in the book, depending largely on locally improvised materials. This is an unvaluable book for students and teachers of psychology, especially for those in Indian universities.

Fascynująca opowieść o człowieku pochodzącym z ubogiej wsi, który w świecie podejrzanych przedsiębiorców i skorumpowanych polityków, w świecie opanowanym przez bezduszność, obojętność i anonimowość, poszukuje nie tylko recepty na bogactwo, ale i chwil prawdziwej bliskości. Bezimienny bohater Hamida podejmuje się różnych, zajęć, często nielegalnych, by zrealizować swoje marzenia. I te o pieniądzach i te o miłości. Całe życie pragnie też jednej kobiety. Kochankowie schodzą się jednak i oddalają, przyciągani wspólną przyszłością i rozdzielani pragnieniem ucieczki od niej. Ta wyjątkowa powieść, wykorzystując formę poradnika, odmienia charakter współpracy między czytelnikiem i tekstem, prowadząc do pytań o to, czy jesteśmy w stanie sami sobie pomóc, w jakim stopniu możemy kontrolować nasz los i jaką cenę trzeba zapłacić, żeby stać się obrzydliwie bogatym… „Pisarz, który wspina się na wyżyny własnego talentu, w dodatku ma do opowiedzenia doskonałą historię”. The Guardian

Aufgewachsen in Pakistan und den USA, ausgebildet in New York und London, geprägt von zwei Sprachen glaubt Mohsin Hamid nicht an die Notwendigkeit der scharfen Abgrenzung von Kulturen. Seine in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzten Romane sind ebenso der Tradition des Westens wie der seiner Heimat verpflichtet. Hier verwischen sich die Grenzen. Als Einwanderer und Ausländer jedoch hat er nicht nur erfahren, was Freiheit im westlichen Sinne bedeutet, sondern auch wie schnell diese ihm, dem Pakistaner und Muslim,entzogen werden kann. Die politische und wirtschaftliche Situation in der muslimischen Welt, vor allem in Pakistan, ist neben der Literatur das vornehmliche Thema dieser hochaktuellen Texte. Mohsin Hamid erweist sich als scharfsinniger Kritiker der modernen globalen Lebensbedingungen.