Mohsin Hamid Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

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 changeOne 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 a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss wars with profound love.As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different a chance to see one another, face to face, anew.'A transformative tale . . . compellingly readable and strangely musical' Guardian'With this big-hearted novel of ideas, Mohsin Hamid confronts challenging truths with insight, wisdom, and - above all else - limitless compassion' Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.