Mohsin Hamid Livres

Originally published in hardccover in 2015 by Riverhead Books.

A portrait of contemporary Pakistan featuring an adulterous romance between two ultra-rich jet setters. He is a banker and she is the wife of his best friend, and she is escaping the constraints of marriage and motherhood by prowling the city as a journalist.

From impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, our nameless hero amasses an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else: the pretty girl whose star rises along with his, their paths crossing and recrossing, a lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the forces that careen their fates along.

'When I was younger, I thought of being a migrant and being foreign as things that made me different, an outsider. Now, I think these experiences are increasingly universal ... ' Since 2000 novelist Mohsin Hamid has been writing about what it means to be an individual in an increasingly fragmented world. In the pieces gathered here he gives us a portrait of a man coming to terms with not only his place in that world but also how its convulsions and changes shape so many of us - for good and ill. Whether writing of his home life, about being a migrant or of today's geopolitical fault lines, Hamid gives us his deeply personal take on life at the beginning of the 21st century.

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.

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, thrust into 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 violence and the threat of violence escalate, 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.

From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbours, friends, and family will greet them. Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded overturning of the established order that must be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss and unease wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading- a chance at a kind of rebirth - an opportunity to see ourselves, face to face, anew. The Last White Man uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence it allows, a migration of consciousness powerfully enacted by the novel itself.

This book combines the salient features of the methodology of experiments in psychology, the concepts of general experimental psychology, and the advantages of laboratory manual. It aims at developing in the student the understanding and skill to pose a problem, and to plan and conduct an experiment to answer it. Complete reports of a number of experiments have been given which, though based on hypothetical data, will enable students to realise that every step has a rationale behind it. Accounts of related problems and, in several cases, description of the ways to answer them, supplement the detailed reports. Aware of the importance of group experiments in the world of today, the author has included experiments highlighting some special features of group experiments like selection of sample, design of group experiments and treatment of group data. The author has also taken care to avoid use of costly apparatus to carry out the experiments worked out in the book, depending largely on locally improvised materials. This is an unvaluable book for students and teachers of psychology, especially for those in Indian universities.

Fascynująca opowieść o człowieku pochodzącym z ubogiej wsi, który w świecie podejrzanych przedsiębiorców i skorumpowanych polityków, w świecie opanowanym przez bezduszność, obojętność i anonimowość, poszukuje nie tylko recepty na bogactwo, ale i chwil prawdziwej bliskości. Bezimienny bohater Hamida podejmuje się różnych, zajęć, często nielegalnych, by zrealizować swoje marzenia. I te o pieniądzach i te o miłości. Całe życie pragnie też jednej kobiety. Kochankowie schodzą się jednak i oddalają, przyciągani wspólną przyszłością i rozdzielani pragnieniem ucieczki od niej. Ta wyjątkowa powieść, wykorzystując formę poradnika, odmienia charakter współpracy między czytelnikiem i tekstem, prowadząc do pytań o to, czy jesteśmy w stanie sami sobie pomóc, w jakim stopniu możemy kontrolować nasz los i jaką cenę trzeba zapłacić, żeby stać się obrzydliwie bogatym… „Pisarz, który wspina się na wyżyny własnego talentu, w dodatku ma do opowiedzenia doskonałą historię”. The Guardian

Aufgewachsen in Pakistan und den USA, ausgebildet in New York und London, geprägt von zwei Sprachen glaubt Mohsin Hamid nicht an die Notwendigkeit der scharfen Abgrenzung von Kulturen. Seine in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzten Romane sind ebenso der Tradition des Westens wie der seiner Heimat verpflichtet. Hier verwischen sich die Grenzen. Als Einwanderer und Ausländer jedoch hat er nicht nur erfahren, was Freiheit im westlichen Sinne bedeutet, sondern auch wie schnell diese ihm, dem Pakistaner und Muslim,entzogen werden kann. Die politische und wirtschaftliche Situation in der muslimischen Welt, vor allem in Pakistan, ist neben der Literatur das vornehmliche Thema dieser hochaktuellen Texte. Mohsin Hamid erweist sich als scharfsinniger Kritiker der modernen globalen Lebensbedingungen.