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Comment s'en mettre plein les poches en Asie mutante
Mohsin Hamid
- Grasset et fasquelle
- 27 Août 2014
- 9782246807827
Lecteur, lectrice : tu viens d'acquérir le nouveau roman de Mohsin Hamid. Grand bien t'en a pris. Car celui-ci va te permettre de découvrir comment t'en mettre plein les poches en Asie mutante, comme le héros de cette édifiante et rocambolesque épopée : né dans la plus insigne pauvreté, au coeur de la campagne d'un pays anonyme du continent indien, il va monter à la ville, parfaire son éducation, rencontrer l'amour, flirter avec la tentation politique, puis faire fortune par le plus inattendu des moyens. Ce sont, en une poignée de pages, quatre-vingts années d'une vie d'homme que tu tiens entre tes mains - « un homme fait de tous les hommes et qui les vaut tous et que vaut n'importe qui » à l'heure de la mondialisation galopante. Et si cette fable contemporaine et universelle te fait verser quelques larmes, ne t'en fais pas, car celles-ci jailliront avant tout du plaisir et de l'émotion que tu t'apprêtes à éprouver en lisant ce petit joyau de littérature.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland 'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America . . . ' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear . . . Challenging, mysterious and thrillingly tense, Mohsin Hamid's masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today's globalised, fractured world. 'Masterful . . . A multi-layered and thoroughly gripping book, which works as a poignant love story, a powerful dissection of how US imperialist machinations have turned so many people against the world's superpower - and as a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending' Metro 'Beautifully written . . . more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time' Philip Pullman 'A brilliant book' Kiran Desai 'Admirably spare and amazingly exciting' Rachel Cooke, New Statesman Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. His fiction has been 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 Paris Review . 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.
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From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling changebr>br>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.br>br>''Gorgeously crafted . . . The Last White Man concludes on a note of hope, a door jarred open just enough to let transcendence pour through'' O, the Oprah Magazine br>br>''The electric premise, borrowed from Kafka''s The Metamorphosis, looks set to update a classic to make it urgently relevant'' Evening Standardbr>br>Praise for Exit Westbr>br>''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 br>br>''Lyrical and urgent . . . peels away the dross of bigotry to expose the beauty of our common humanity.'' - O, the Oprah Magazinebr>br>''Powerful, vivid, poignant . . . Hamid is the master'' The Sunday Times br>br>''Astonishing'' Zadie Smith br>br>''[An] exceptionally moving and powerful novel'' The Guardian>
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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'.
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THE LAST WHITE MAN - LARGE TYPE PRINT EDITION
Mohsin Hamid
- Random house usa
- 23 Août 2022
- 9780593607640
Mohsin Hamid is the author of the international bestsellers
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In Lahore, Daru Shezad is a junior banker with a hashish habit. When his old friend Ozi moves back to Pakistan, Daru wants to be happy for him. Ozi has everything: a beautiful wife and child, an expensive foreign education - and a corrupt father who bankrolls his lavish lifestyle.
As jealousy sets in, Daru's life slowly unravels. He loses his job. Starts lacing his joints with heroin. Becomes involved with a criminally-minded rickshaw driver. And falls in love with Ozi's lonely wife.
But how low can Daru sink? Is he guilty of the crime he finds himself on trial for?
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