Mohsin Hamid Knihy

V krajine, ktorá je na pokraji občianskej vojny, sa zoznámia dvaja mladí ľudia – zmyselná, tvrdošijne nezávislá Nadia a mierny, zdržanlivý Said. Rozhorí sa medzi nimi láska, no intímnejšiemu vzťahu bránia nepokoje, ktoré sa šíria ich mestom. Keď naplno vypuknú a ulice sa zmenia na spleť kontrolných stanovíšť, prestreliek a bombových výbuchov, mladá dvojica sa dopočuje o dverách, cez ktoré sa ľudia môžu dostať z krajiny niekam ďaleko, hoci to môže byť riskantné a platí sa za to. Násilnosti sa stupňujú a Nadia so Saidom nemajú na výber. Opúšťajú rodnú krajinu a doterajší život, nájdu si také dvere a prekročia ich prah. Ocitajú sa v odlišnom svete a úporne sa usilujú udržať svoj vzťah, nezabúdať na minulosť a zachovať si vedomie toho, kto vlastne sú. Mohsin Hamid rozpráva s hlbokou intímnosťou a spôsobivou vynachádzavosťou nezabudnuteľný, aktuálny, ale zároveň nadčasový príbeh o láske, oddanosti a odvahe.

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.

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.

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.