Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

From one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers (The New York Times), intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and the war on terror.Mohsin Hamid's brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international best seller, 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.