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The Last White Man
- Author
- Mohsin Hamid
- Narrator
- Mohsin Hamid
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 11 August 2022
- Run Time
- 3 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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From the internationally bestselling author of 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.
Praise for Exit West
'Hamid's enticing strategy is to foreground the humanity. . . . [He] exploits fiction's capacity to elicit empathy and identification to imagine a better world.' - The New York Times Book Review
'Lyrical and urgent . . . peels away the dross of bigotry to expose the beauty of our common humanity.' - O, the Oprah Magazine
'Powerful, vivid, poignant . . . Hamid is the master' The Sunday Times
'Astonishing' Zadie Smith
'[An] exceptionally moving and powerful novel' The Guardian
© Mohsin Hamid 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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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
Oprah Daily
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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'
Guardian
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The electric premise, borrowed from Kafka's The Metamorphosis, looks set to update a classic to make it urgently relevant
Evening Standard
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[A] powerful contemporary update of Kafka's The Metamorphosis
A Financial Times Book of the Year
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Details
- Author
- Mohsin Hamid
- Narrator
- Mohsin Hamid
- Duration
- 3 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 August 2022
- ISBN
- 9780241568330
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Dystopian and utopian fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling changeOne 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.Praise for Exit West'Hamid's enticing strategy is to foreground the humanity. . . . [He] exploits fiction's capacity to elicit empathy and identification to imagine a better world.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Lyrical and urgent . . . peels away the dross of bigotry to expose the beauty of our common humanity.' - O, the Oprah Magazine 'Powerful, vivid, poignant . . . Hamid is the master' The Sunday Times 'Astonishing' Zadie Smith '[An] exceptionally moving and powerful novel' The Guardian © Mohsin Hamid 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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