Run And Hide
- Author Pankaj Mishra
- Narrator Mikhail Sen
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Publish Date 24 February 2022
- Run Time 10 hours and 16 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships.
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What to expect
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Arun knows there is only way out of this small railway town. He is about to enrol in the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, determined to make something of himself. But once there, he meets two friends who are prepared to go to unimaginable lengths to succeed.
In just a few years, Arun's friends become the success stories of their generation. In private planes and expensive cars, from New York to Tuscany, they play out their Gatsby-style fantasies.
In reality, these men are about to pay for their transgressions, but who exactly will pay the price? Will it be Arun? Will it be Alia, a female writer and influencer, who is piecing together the story of a big global financial scandal?
Run and Hide is a novel about a group of friends in an age of upheaval and breakdown; it is a story for our times.
'Terrific . . . elegantly written, incisively observed, and deeply satisfying to read' Kamila Shamsie
'A book that demands to be read and rewards reading' Mohsin Hamid
'Pankaj Mishra returns to fiction after two decades with a gripping and remarkable novel - his best work yet. It captures the trajectory of our time through insights and moments that are startling, pure, and have a strange inevitability' Amit Chaudhuri
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Critics Review
Pankaj Mishra transforms a visceral, intimate story of one man’s humble origins into a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society bedazzled by power and wealth – what it means on a human level, and what it costs. Run and Hide is a spectacular, illuminating work of fiction
In his first novel in more than 20 years, acclaimed essayist Mishra splices a cautionary tale with elegant examination of globalisation and the perils of the changing world order. Immensely thought-provoking
The first novel in more than 20 years from the essayist and cultural analyst Pankaj Mishra is as sharp, provocative and engagé as you’d expect… As an exuberant chronicle of a late capitalist world fatally mediated by Twitter and Instagram, Run and Hide might be the most zeitgeisty novel you could read
A wonderfully rich and enjoyable novel . . . a work for our time and one that will surely be read many years on for what will then be its historical interest . . . a novel built to last
A lyrical letter from the new India…a profoundly literary voice, as interested in how to write about a subject as the subject itself
Terrific . . . elegantly written, incisively observed, and deeply satisfying to read
This powerful novel is a searing examination of our recent cultural and political trajectory, a surprising meditation on the role of the writer in times such as ours, a fragile love story, and an unforgiving look at where we are headed. It is, in other words, a book that demands to be read and rewards reading
The changing forms of his writing, always straining to encompass the chaotic reality Mishra sees around himself, reveal him to be a profoundly literary voice, as interested in how to write about a subject as the subject itself…After the density of his recent books, with their weighty bibliographies, Mishra’s fictional prose is permitted, once again, to take lyrical flight
Pankaj Mishra returns to fiction after two decades with a gripping and remarkable novel – his best work yet. It captures the trajectory of our time through insights and moments that are startling, pure, and have a strange inevitability
A profound, extraordinarily written, and devastating exploration of the ways the personal is always already the political. Unforgettable
| Author | Pankaj Mishra |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Mikhail Sen |
| Duration | 10 hours and 16 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781529152029 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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