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Discontentment and its civilizations : dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London / Mohsin Hamid

By:

Hamid, Mohsin

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: NY : Riverhead Books , c2015Description: 226 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781594633652

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DDC classification:

814.6 HAM

LOC classification:

T15 .B76 1978

Summary: A commentary on life, art, politics, and "the war on terror". Hamid's stories are timeless and of-the-moment, and his themes are universal: love, language, ambition, power, corruption, religion, family, identity. Here, he explores these themes from a different angle in essays that counterpoise the personal and the political. He has called three countries on three continents his home-Pakistan, the birthplace to which he returned as a young father; the United States, where he spent his childhood and young adulthood; and Britain, where he married and became a citizen-Hamid writes about overlapping worlds.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	814.6 HAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		036584

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A commentary on life, art, politics, and "the war on terror". Hamid's stories are timeless and of-the-moment, and his themes are universal: love, language, ambition, power, corruption, religion, family, identity. Here, he explores these themes from a different angle in essays that counterpoise the personal and the political. He has called three countries on three continents his home-Pakistan, the birthplace to which he returned as a young father; the United States, where he spent his childhood and young adulthood; and Britain, where he married and became a citizen-Hamid writes about overlapping worlds.

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