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.
Mohsin Hamid Poradie kníh (chronologicky)
Mohsin Hamid je autorom štyroch románov a jednej zbierky esejí. Jeho diela sa objavili na zoznamoch bestsellerov, boli adaptované pre film a preložené do mnohých jazykov. Hamidovo písanie sa často zameriava na témy identity, migrácie a politiky, pričom skúma zložitosť moderného sveta prostredníctvom pútavých príbehov a jedinečného štýlu. Jeho literárny vhľad ponúka čitateľom hlboké zamyslenie nad globálnymi otázkami.







Exit Západ
- 184 stránok
- 7 hodin čítania
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.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- 240 stránok
- 9 hodin čítania
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.
Moth Smoke
- 307 stránok
- 11 hodin čítania
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.
Discontent and Its Civilizations
Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London - English Edition
- 208 stránok
- 8 hodin čítania
'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.