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From "one of his generation's most inventive and gifted authors" (The NY Times), romantic and sharply noticed commentary on life, skill, politics, and "the conflict on terror". Mohsin Hamid's brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily ingenious novels never have only made him a global best seller, they may have acquired him a reputation as a "get better at critic of the modern global condition" (Foreign Plan). His testimonies are in once classic and of-the-moment, and his designs are common: love, words, ambition, power, problem, religion, family, personal information. Here, he explores this ground from some other perspective in essays that deftly counterpoise the personal and the political, and are taken through with the same enthusiasm, imagination, and amazing shifts of point of view that gives his fiction its unmistakable electric fee. 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 put in his youth and young adulthood; and Britain, where he committed and became a citizen - Hamid creates about overlapping worlds with fluidity and penetrating insight. Whether he is talking about courtship rituals or pop culture, drones or the rhythms of lifestyle in an extended family mixture, he transports us beyond the scarifying headlines of anxious Western and a volatile East, beyond stereotype and assumption, and helps to bring a amazing, diverse global culture within emotional and intellectual reach.

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