New Releases by Mohsin Hamid

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.

Een vlijmscherpe roman over liefde en identiteit

Finalista do Man Booker Prize 2017 Num cenário de guerra, é possível o amor e a esperança. A história do amor furtivo de Nadia e Saeed tem lugar numa cidade não nomeada cheia de postos de controlo e de bombas, um labirinto humano à beira da rutura. Quando a guerra civil rebenta, surgem estranhos rumores sobre a existência de portas clandestinas que levam a outros países. À medida que a violência aumenta, os dois jovens sabem que têm de deixar para trás a vida que sempre conheceram, embarcando numa viagem sem regresso, vertiginosa e cheia de surpresas. Numa mistura singular de realismo e magia, Passagem para o Ocidente é um belíssimo romance sobre refugiados, que nos leva a questionar em que mundo queremos viver.

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Di negeri yang sedang menuju kancah perang saudara, dua anak muda bertemu––Nadia yang lembut dan sangat mandiri, dan Saeed yang santun dan tenang. Mereka terlibat kisah cinta rahasia di tengah kota yang sedang bergolak. Ketika situasi semakin berbahaya dan bom-bom mulai merajalela, mereka mendengar bisik-bisik tentang pintu-pintu yang bisa membuka ke tempat-tempat jauh, dengan harga tertentu. Karena tak punya pilihan lain, keduanya memutuskan untuk meninggalkan negeri dan kehidupan mereka, dan memulai di tempat baru. Exit West mengisahkan perjalanan kedua anak muda ini, di tempat asing, menuju masa depan yang tidak pasti, berusaha berpegang pada satu sama lain dan masa lalu mereka, sambil mencari jati diri yang sesungguhnya.

«He de recomanar L'integrista reticent per mil·lèsima vegada. És una novel·la tan punyent i ben aconseguida que fa que agraeixis ser lector.» Junot Díaz Assegut en una taula d'un cafè de Lahore, Pakistan, el jove Changez narra la seva vida a un ciutadà nord-americà que acaba de conèixer. Estudiant brillant, jove promesa d'una multinacional i amant de l'elegant Erika, Changez representava el somni de l'immigrant nord-americà fins que l'atemptat de l'11 de setembre sacseja la seva vida: la desconfiança i el racisme creixent faran que Changez comenci a sentir-se expulsat de la vida occidental i l'arrossegaran a una profunda reflexió sobre l'encaix entre les seves arrels i el món on viu. A través d'un monòleg captivador i vertiginós, el jove exposarà les claus que expliquen la fractura actual entre orient i occident. L'integrista reticent és un terratrèmol literari decidit a radiografiar el món on vivim. The Washington Post — «Alguns llibres són actes de coratge. El que ha fet Hamid amb aquest llibre és extraordinari.» Sydney Morning Herald — «Breu, fascinant i discretament furiosa. Un encert clamorós.» Albert Forns, Diari Ara — «L'integrista reticent continua sent una lectura de plena vigència, que ens força a mirar la nostra realitat amb ulls d'estranger i a reflexionar sobre el sentit de la pertinença, del sentir-se autòcton en un món globalitzat. Mohsin Hamid ens col·loca en la incomoditat d'haver de prendre partit.» Cultural / El Mundo — «L'integrista reticent és una novel·la valenta, amb la fluïdesa d'un relat policial i una notable clarividència política.»

Lahore. In einem Café sitzen sich ein mitteilsamer Pakistani und ein zurückhaltender Amerikaner gegenüber. Als langsam die Nacht über die Stadt hereinbricht, enthüllt der Pakistani immer mehr Details seiner Lebensgeschichte. Changez heißt er, und er erzählt, wie er als junger, ehrgeiziger Gaststudent nach Princeton kommt. Als Vorzeigestudent wird er nach seinem Abschluss sofort von einer Elite-Firma engagiert. Er stürzt sich ins pulsierende Leben New Yorks, erhält durch seine reiche Freundin Erica Zugang zu Manhattans High Society und wähnt sich auf der Seite der Gewinner. Aber nach dem 11. September fällt sein amerikanischer Traum vom unaufhaltsamen Aufstieg langsam in sich zusammen. Plötzlich erscheint Changez die Bindung an seine Heimat wichtiger als Geld, Macht und Erfolg. All dies berichtet der Pakistani dem Amerikaner, dessen Motivation an dem Gespräch im Dunkeln bleibt. Allein im Spiegel des Erzählers zeichnet sich ab, dass der grausame Höhepunkt der Geschichte kurz bevorsteht.

Bienvenidos a Occidente es una bellísima fábula sobre los refugiados, una novela con una sólida posición ética que nos cuestiona en qué mundo queremos vivir. Por Mohsin Hamid, uno de los autores más reputados de la actualidad UNO DE LOS 100 MEJORES LIBROS DEL SIGLO XXI SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES UNO DE LOS 10 LIBROS QUE HAY QUE LEER PARA ENTENDER EL MUNDO SEGÚN LA UNIVERSIDAD DE HARVARD La historia de amor furtivo de Nadia y Said tiene lugar en una ciudad llena de puntos de control y bombas. Es un laberinto humano donde, al empezar la guerra civil, surgen extrañas habladurías: «rumores sobre puertas que podían llevarlo a uno a otro lugar, concretamente a lugares remotos, alejados de aquella trampa mortal de país». En una historia épica de tremenda actualidad, esta insólita pareja de amantes huirá para recalar primero en Mikonos y luego ir desplazándose hacia el oeste, compartiendo el periplo vital de millones de personas que sufren en sus carnes el rechazo (o, en ocasiones, la bienvenida) de Occidente. Reseñas: «Dinámica y lapidaria. Una novela absorbente.» Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times «Elegante y actual. Hamid es un escritor tan romántico como político: en el centro de sus novelas siempre late una historia de amor.» Louis Wise, The Sunday Times «Una obra maestra, que estira los límites de lo verosímil para hablar del lugar en el mundo que ocupan inmigrantes y refugiados. Pero es también una novela asentada en lo real. Un libro bellísimo.» Michael Chabon «En el corazón de la novela, la cuestión moral sobre los derechos migratorios llega donde ninguna otra obra ha llegado todavía.» Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic «Impresionante. Bienvenidos a Occidente confirma la reputación de Hamid como ventrílocuo genial e implicado en los asuntos más urgentes de nuestro tiempo.» Andrew Motion, The Guardian «Extraordinaria.» Zadie Smith «Lo que sitúa a Bienvenidos a Occidente en la élite de la novela contemporánea es su manera de narrar, como ningún otro libro, lo que está sucediendo hoy y forma parte ya de la Historia.» Davide Piacenza, Rivista Studio «Necesitamos más escritores como Hamid. No nos conduce a la utopía, sino a la puerta de un futuro cercano donde se entrevén siluetas de forasteros: solo hay que cruzar el umbral y conocerlos.» Viet Thanh Nguyen

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE “It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” —Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review “Moving, audacious, and indelibly human.” —Entertainment Weekly, “A” rating The New York Times bestselling novel: an astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands, from the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the forthcoming The Last White Man. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. . . . Exit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.

Of hij nu schrijft over popcultuur, drones, migratie of het dagelijkse familieleven, bestsellerauteur Mohsin Hamid neemt de lezer mee voorbij de angstaanjagende krantenkoppen uit het bezorgde Westen over een turbulent Oosten, voorbij stereotypen en vooroordelen. Hij weet de meest uiteenlopende culturen binnen bereik te brengen en noemt het recht op migratie ‘een fundamenteel mensenrecht’. Zelf groeide hij op in Pakistan, waar hij terugkeerde als jonge vader; hij bracht zijn jeugd door in de Verenigde Staten en hij trouwde in Londen, zijn huidige woonplaats. In deze bundel verkent hij deze terreinen vanuit een ander, persoonlijker en meer politiek oogpunt, maar hij schrijft met dezelfde passie en verbeeldingskracht die zijn fictie een onmiskenbare elektrische lading geven.

Den modvillige fundamentalist er en beretning om en ung succesrig og veluddannet pakistaner, der mister sig selv og sit nye hjem, New York, som følge af 11. september.

From the bestselling author of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Exit West, coming in March 2017, “a near-perfect essay collection, filled with insight, compassion, and intellect." (NPR) Mohsin Hamid’s brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international bestseller, they have earned him a reputation as a “master critic of the modern global condition” (Foreign Policy). His stories are at once timeless and of-the-moment, and his themes are universal: love, language, ambition, power, corruption, religion, family, identity. Here he explores this terrain from a different angle in essays that deftly counterpoise the personal and the political, and are shot through with the same passion, imagination, and breathtaking shifts of perspective that gives his fiction its unmistakable electric charge. A “water lily” who 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 with fluidity and penetrating insight. Whether he is discussing courtship rituals or pop culture, drones or the rhythms of daily life in an extended family compound, he transports us beyond the scarifying headlines of an anxious West and a volatile East, beyond stereotype and assumption, and helps to bring a dazzling diverse global culture within emotional and intellectual reach.

At A CafÉ Table In Lahore, A Bearded Pakistani Man Converses With An American Stranger. As Dusk Deepens To Dark, He Begins The Tale That Has Brought Him To This Fateful Meeting . . . Among The Brightest And Best Of His Graduating Class At Princeton,Changez Is Snapped Up By Underwood And Samson, An Elite Firm Thatspecializes In &Lsquo;Valuation&Rsquo; Of Companies Ripe For Acquisition. He Thriveson New York And The Intensity Of His Work, And His Infatuation Withthe Beautiful Erica Promises Entry Into Manhattan Society At The Sameexalted Level Once Occupied By His Own Family Back In Lahore. But Inthe Wake Of September 11, He Finds His Position In The City He Lovessuddenly Overturned, And His Budding Relationship With Erica Eclipsedby The Reawakened Ghosts Of Her Past. And Changez&Rsquo;S Own Identity Isin Seismic Shift As Well, Unearthing Allegiances More Fundamental Thanmoney, Power, And Perhaps Even Love. The Reluctant Fundamentalist Is A Riveting And Devastating Exploration Of Our Divided And Yet Ultimately Indivisible World, Withechoes Of Fitzgerald And Camus. &Lsquo;Mohsin Hamid&Rsquo;S Exceptionally Taut And Gripping Novel Gently Explores The Fault Lines Between The American West And The Islamic East. Hamid Seems To Have Pulled Off The Near Impossible. This Is A Meditative Novel Written In An Introspective Manner&Hellip;But This Is Also A Deeply Suspenseful Work, The Sense Of Anticipation Heightened By Hamid&Rsquo;S Wonderful Use Of Restraint&Rsquo;&Mdash;Mukund Padmanabhan In The Hindu &Lsquo;A Brilliant Book. With Spooky Restraint And Masterful Control, Hamid Unpicks The Underpinnings Of The Most Recent Episode Of Distrust Between East And West. But His Book Does Not Merely Excel In Capturing A Developing Bitterness. The Narrative Is Balanced By A Love As Powerful As The Sinister Forces Gathering, Even When It Recedes Into A Phantom Of Hope. It Is This Balance, And The Constant Negotiation Of The Political With The Personal, That Creates A Nuanced And Complex Portrait Of A Reluctant Fundamentalist&Rsquo;&Mdash;Kiran Desai, Author Of The Inheritance Of Loss &Lsquo;A Quietly Told, Cleverly Constructed Fable Of Infatuation And Disenchantment With America&Hellip;Astute Cultural Observation At Which Hamid Excels. An Intelligent, Highly Engaging Piece Of Work&Rsquo;&Mdash; James Lasdun In The Guardian

"Sådan bliver du stinkende rig i det nye Asien" er både en medrivende fortælling om kærlighed og kampen for at lykkes og en rå oprørende skildring af et kynisk samfund, der bygger på den stærkes ret. En dreng fødes i en landsby i et land, som kunne være Pakistan. At blive i landsbyen indebærer et hårdt og fattigt liv med en voldsom, alt for tidlig, afslutning. Men vores hovedperson har en anden skæbne foran sig. En skæbne, der drives frem af fortælleren: At blive stinkende rig er muligt, ja, men det kræver opofrelse. Drengen gør alting rigtig. Han flytter til storbyen, uddanner sig, skaffer sig beskyttelse til gengæld for loyalitet. Han arbejder hårdt – konstant. Han opbygger et forretningsimperium ved at adlyde fortællerens råd: undgå idealister, vær forberedt på at bruge vold, og, vigtigst af alt, bliv aldrig forelsket. For dette er også en historie om kærlighed, om en dreng og en pige, som gennem hele deres liv har en stærk længsel efter hinanden, og hvis veje krydses gang på gang. De er ofre for en orden, som kræver at de accepterer at alt er til salg. Mandens ægteskab bliver en katastrofe, den smukke pige lever alene. Til den dag alting styrter sammen. "Sådan bliver du stinkende rig i det nye Asien” er en kærlighedshistorie forklædt som selvhjælpsguide. En dannelsesroman om en stræber, hvis hele tilværelse balancerer på en knivsæg, fra han som fattig, syg og sultende dreng fra landet ender som succesrig og styrtende rig ’tycoon’ – i et land som kunne være Pakistan. ”En globaliseret udgave af Den store Gatsby ... Mohsin Hamids roman er faktisk så god.” - NPR

Lahore, Pakistan, de nos jours. Un homme est assis à la terrasse d'un café. Le jeune Tchenguiz l'aborde, croyant reconnaître en lui un Américain. D'emblée il lui dit son amour inconditionnel des Etats-Unis, s'assied à côté de lui, puis se lance dans un long récit. Il raconte comment il a accompli son rêve d'enfance en partant faire ses études aux Etats-Unis. Brillant diplômé de Princeton, engagé sans embûche par une prestigieuse entreprise, il a aussi rencontré l'amour : Erica, blonde aux yeux bleus. Bref, une success story à l'américaine, et un modèle d'intégration. Mais un jour, le 11 septembre 2001, tout a basculé. Ce fut le début d'une longue fuite en avant. Dans ce monologue tout en fausse candeur, Moshin Hamid pose des questions humaines, sociales et politiques fondamentales sur notre monde actuel, sur les relations entre les peuples et les individus, et sur le sens toujours trouble de nos identités et de nos ambitions.

Come puoi, tu, nato povero e fragile in un villaggio di campagna dell'Asia «emergente», diventare un magnate nel campo, piú o meno legale, della creazione, imbottigliamento e vendita di acqua minerale? Ci riuscirai, sta' sicuro, in dodici semplici passi. E se per ottenere questo obiettivo dovrai rinunciare all'amore, schivare l'idealismo, scendere a patti con militari e malavitosi, corrompere e truffare, la domanda che devi porti forse è questa: riuscirai dopotutto a essere felice?

Es ist Sommer in Lahore, und die Erde wackelt, weil unter ihrer Oberfläche Atombomben getestet werden. Doch der 29-jährige Daru hat ganz andere Probleme, nachdem er den gut bezahlten Job bei einer Bank verloren hat. Weil er die Stromrechnung nicht mehr bezahlen kann, sitzt er schwitzend und bei Kerzenlicht in seiner Bude und raucht alles, was er kriegen kann. Als Darus Freund Ozi, der mit seiner schönen Frau Mumtaz aus Amerika zurückgekehrt ist, erfährt, dass Daru sein Geld mit Drogen verdient und damit endgültig die gesellschaftlichen Seiten gewechselt hat, wendet er sich von ihm ab. Aber Mumtaz ist noch fasziniert von Daru und Daru von ihr – wie Nachtschmetterlinge flattern sie im Licht ihrer ehebrecherischen Anziehung. Und während Mumtaz unter falschem Namen politische Skandale aufdeckt, gerät Daru immer weiter auf die schiefe Bahn ...

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is Mohsin Hamid's spectacular, thought-provoking novel of modern Asia In this keenly-awaited follow-up to his bestselling The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid confirms his place as a radically inventive story-teller with his finger on the world's pulse. The astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by youths all over 'rising Asia'. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on the most fluid and increasingly scarce of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises alongside his, their paths crossing and re-crossing in a love affair sparked and snuffed out again by the forces that careen their fates along. The hero of the story could be any one of us, hungry for a different life. And ours too could be the fate that awaits him . . . Fast-paced, vivid and emotionally absorbing, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change. Praise for How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: 'Even more intriguing, compelling and moving than The Reluctant Fundamentalist. A marvellous book' Philip Pullman 'This brilliantly structured, deeply felt book is written with the confidence and bravura of a man born to write. Hamid is at the peak of his considerable powers here, and delivers a tightly paced, preternaturally wise book about a thoroughly likable, thoroughly troubled striver in the messiest, most chaotic ring of global economy. Completely unforgettable' Dave Eggers 'Mohsin Hamid is one of the best writers in the world, period. Only a master could have written this propulsive tale of a striver living on the knife's edge, a noir Horatio Alger story for our frenetic, violent times' Ben Fountain 'Written in the most compelling second person since Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, with which it also shares a sharp take on our frenetic, urban lives, Hamid's novel proves that the most compelling fiction today is coming from South Asia' Daily Beast Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Moth Smoke. His fiction has been adapted for the cinema, translated into over 30 languages, received numerous awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as the Guardian, The New York Times, Financial Times, Granta, and the New Yorker. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived between Lahore, London and New York.

Het leven van de wieg tot het graf van een man die een succesvol zakenman probeert te worden in een grote Aziatische stad vol corruptie, geweld, vriendjespolitiek, uitbuiting en armoede.

The debut novel from the internationally bestselling author of Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid’s deftly conceived first novel, immediately marked him as an uncommonly gifted and ambitious young literary talent to watch when it was published in 2000. It tells the story of Daru Shezad, who, fired from his banking job in Lahore, begins a decline that plummets the length of Hamid’s sharply drawn, subversive tale. Fast-paced and unexpected, Moth Smoke was ahead of its time in portraying a contemporary Pakistan far more vivid and complex than the exoticized images of South Asia then familiar to the West. It established Mohsin Hamid as an internationally important writer of substance and imagination and the premier Pakistani author of our time, a promise he has amply fulfilled with each successive book. This debut novel, meanwhile, remains as compelling and deeply relevant to the moment as when it appeared more than a decade ago.

Changez, a young Muslim American, is living the American dream, with a Princeton education and high-paying job, until the events of September 11th force him to confront his personal allegiances.

Een jonge Pakistaan begint een succesvolle carrière in New York, maar beseft steeds duidelijker dat hij uit een andere cultuur komt waaruit hij zich niet kan losmaken.

En "Humo de mariposa" asistimos a la gradual caída de un joven autodestructivo de clase acomodada en un Pakistán moderno y sorprendente a los ojos de un occidental, más allá de la novela de denuncia o costumbrista, no por ello sin dejar de lado aspectos muy concretos de su sociedad (diferencia de clases y de género, avance del fundamentalismo, clima bélico, corrupción...), que se cuelan por los resortes de la trama. El autor, a su vez, juega hábilmente con diferentes niveles narrativos, intercalando varios puntos de vista acorde con sus personajes y creando un puzle que un lector astuto habrá de descifrar.