The Last White Man
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The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ"A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VOGUE, AND NPR
"Perhaps Hamid's most remarkable work yet ... an extraordinary vision of human possibility." -Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies
"Searing, exhilarating ... reimagines Kafka's iconic The Metamorphosis for our racially charged era." Hamilton Cain, Oprah Daily
From the New York Times-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 neighbors, 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.
In Mohsin Hamid's "lyrical and urgent" prose (O Magazine), The Last White Man powerfully uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence over bigotry, fear, and anger it can achieve.
Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, both finalists for the Man Booker Prize, are among Mohsin Hamid's international bestsellers. Moth Smoke, his first novel, won the Betty Trask Prize and was a PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award finalist. His pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and other publications, including a collection of them called Discontent and Its Civilizations. He is based in Pakistan's Lahore.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593538814 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593538811 |
| Title | The Last White Man |
| Author | Mohsin Hamid |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2022-08-02 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Aspen Words Literary Prize 2022 |
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