Discontent and Its Civilizations
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  • Published: 23 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241146323
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $19.99

Discontent and Its Civilizations

Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London

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Now in paperback, the essential first collection of non-fiction from one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013

Discontent and its Civilizations collects the best of Mohsin Hamid's writing on subjects as diverse and wide-ranging as Pakistan; fatherhood; the death of Osama Bin Laden and the writing of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Unified by the author's humane, clear-headed and witty voice, the book makes a compelling case for recognizing our common humanity while relishing our diversity - both as readers and citizens; for resisting the artificial mono-identities of religion or nationality or race; and for always judging a country or nation by how it treats its minorities, as 'Each individual human being is, after all, a minority of one'.
  • Published: 23 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241146323
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid grew up in Lahore, attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School and worked for several years as a management consultant in New York. His first novel, Moth Smoke, was published in ten languages, won a Betty Trask Award, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His essays and journalism have appeared in Time, the New York Times and the Guardian, among others. His latest novel is The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) published by Penguin. Mohsin Hamid currently lives, works and writes in London.

http://www.mohsinhamid.com

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