Mohsin Hamid Knihy

Na příběhu NĚKOHO (hrdinovo jméno neznáme) ukazuje Hamid krutou a drsnou tvář současné Asie – bídu, nemoci a smrt. Na druhé straně vypráví o lásce partnerské i rodičovské. Největší devízou díla je právě styl, připomínající Salmana Rushdieho, v němž mísí tragické s komickým, vysoké s nízkým, západní s východním. První vydání.

Jmenoval se Saíd a ona Nadja. Jednoho dne se seznámili a zamilovali se do sebe. Mohla to být pěkná love story, jenomže. Jenže to všechno začalo v nejmenované muslimské zemi, kde právě propukl ozbrojený konflikt mezi vládou a militantními skupinami. Když se potvrdí, že existují záhadné dveře, díky nimž se ocitnete na jiném místě planety, není proč s útěkem otálet. Hamidův nejnovější román se vloni dostal do nejužšího výběru na Man Bookerovu cenu.

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.

'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.

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.

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.