Discontent and Its Civilizations
by:
Mohsin Hamid (author)
'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 the year 2000, novelist Mohsin Hamid has been writing about what it means to be an individual in an increasingly...
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'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 the year 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 comi
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780241146323 (0241146321)
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
I'm quite happy to have had the opportunity to read that, but out of eight essays I found best/ useful and was ready to scan, six were easily available online. Frustrating.
bookshelves: winter-20142015, published-2014, radio-4, nonfiction, autobiography-memoir, essays Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from November 29 to December 05, 2014 BOTWhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04sttd9Description: These timely 'dispatches from Lahore, New York and London' enc...