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By (author) Hamid, Mohsin

From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change

One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover.

Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an established order, to be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders”s father and Oona”s mother, a sense of profound loss wars with profound love.

As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance to see one another, face to face, anew.

”A transformative tale . . . compellingly readable and strangely musical” Guardian

”With this big-hearted novel of ideas, Mohsin Hamid confronts challenging truths with insight, wisdom, and – above all else – limitless compassion” Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

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Mohsin Hamid”s The Last White Man is a visionary novel exploring race and identity… it”s another bracing achievement from a consummate master, its silken prose breathing fresh air into fusty debates about race and identity

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A hypnotic race fable . . . In the hands of such a deft and humane writer as Hamid, a bizarre construct is moved far beyond any mere ”what if”

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The electric premise, borrowed from Kafka”s The Metamorphosis, looks set to update a classic to make it urgently relevant

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[A] powerful contemporary update of Kafka”s The Metamorphosis

Biographical note:
MOHSIN HAMID writes regularly for The New York Times, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books, and is the author of Exit West, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Discontent and its Civilizations. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he has since lived between Lahore, London and New York.