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Discontent and Its Civilizations

Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London

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Discontent and Its Civilizations

By: Mohsin Hamid
Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid
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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 audiobook makes a compelling case for recognising 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'.

©2014 Mohsin Hamid (P)2022 Penguin Audio
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