Discontent and its civilizations : dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London / Mohsin Hamid.
"From "one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers" (The New York Times), intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and "the war on terror." Mohsin Hamid's brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international bestseller, th...
| Uniform Title: | Essays.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2015.
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| Physical Description: | 226 pages ; 21 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Once upon a life
- Art and the other Pakistans
- When Updike saved me from Morrison (and myself)
- In concert, no touching
- International relations
- The countdown
- A home for water lilies
- Down the tube
- On fatherhood
- It had to be a sign
- Avatar in Lahore
- Don't angry me
- Personal and political intertwined
- Pereira transforms
- My reluctant fundamentalist
- Rereading
- Get fit with Haruki Murakami
- Enduring love of the second person
- Are we too concerned that characters be "likable"?
- Where is the Great American Novel by a woman?
- How do e-books change the reading experience?
- Are the new "golden age" TV shows the new novels?
- The usual ally
- Divided we fall
- After sixty years, will Pakistan be reborn?
- A beginning
- Fear and silence
- Feverish and flooded, Pakistan can yet thrive
- Discontent and its civilizations
- Uniting Pakistan's minority and majority
- Osama bin Laden's death
- Why they get Pakistan wrong
- Nationalism should retire at sixty-five
- To fight India, we fought ourselves
- Why drones don't help
- Islam is not a monolith.