Mohsin Hamid

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Exit West written and read by Mohsin Hamid.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017.

This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night.

This is Saeed. He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for star-gazing.

This is their story: a love story, but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow. Saeed and Nadia are falling in love, and their city is falling apart. Here is a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it.

Exit West is a heartfelt and radical act of hope - a novel to restore your faith in humanity and in the power of imagination.

''Mixing the real and the surreal, using old fairy-tale magic... Compelling, crystalline, unnervingly dystopian'' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, read by Ashley Kumar. Long listed for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Nadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people, attempting to do an extraordinary thing - to fall in love - in a world turned upside down. Theirs will be a love story but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow, of a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it. Civil war has come to the city which Nadia and Saeed call home. Before long they will need to leave their motherland behind - when the streets are no longer useable and the unknown is safer than the known. They will join the great outpouring of people fleeing a collapsing city, hoping against hope, looking for their place in the world . . .

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Mohsin Hamid''s How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, read by the author himself.

The astonishing and riveting tale of a man''s journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, ''How To Get Filthy Rich in Asia'' steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by youths all over ''rising Asia''. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on the most fluid and increasingly scarce of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises alongside his, their paths crossing and re-crossing in a love affair sparked and snuffed out again by the forces that careen their fates along.

The hero of the story could be any one of us, hungry for a different life. And ours too could be the fate that awaits him . . .

Fast-paced, vivid and emotionally absorbing, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change.

''This book is a self-help book. Its objective, as it says on the cover, is to show you how to get filthy rich in rising Asia. And to do that it has to find you, huddled, shivering, on the packed earth under your mother''s cot one cold dewy morning . . .''

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Reluctant Fundamentalist written and read by Mohsin Hamid.

''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 . . .

''Masterful . . . A poignant love story and a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending'' Metro

Brought to you by Penguin.From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling changeOne 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.Praise for Exit West'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 'Lyrical and urgent . . . peels away the dross of bigotry to expose the beauty of our common humanity.' - O, the Oprah Magazine 'Powerful, vivid, poignant . . . Hamid is the master' The Sunday Times 'Astonishing' Zadie Smith '[An] exceptionally moving and powerful novel' The Guardian (c) Mohsin Hamid 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Palkittu romaani nuorten rakastavaisten paosta sekasortoisesta Lähi-Idästä - tarina rakkaudesta ja luottamuksesta.

Nadja ja Saeed kohtaavat iltaluennoilla ja heittäytyvät vähitellen salaiseen suhteeseen maassa, joka on sisällissodan kynnyksellä. Väkivalta yltyy ja ulkonaliikkumiskielto on voimassa öisin. He alkavat kuulla huhuja ovista joista voi livahtaa pois, vaarallisesti ja kovaan hintaan. Kotimaa jää taakse. Oudossa ja epävarmassa tilanteessa he yrittävät pitää kiinni toisistaan ja menneisyydestään.

Exit west valittiin New York Timesissa vuoden 2017 parhaaksi kirjaksi ja se voitti myös mm. LA Timesin kirjapalkinnon.

Eräänä aamuna valkoinen keski-ikäinen mies huomaa, että hänen ihonsa on yön aikana muuttunut tummaksi. Palkitun kertojan romaani puistelee uskomuksiamme itsestämme ja maailmasta.

Muodonmuutoksen kokenut Anders ei ole tunnistaa peilikuvaansa. Järkyttyneenä hän päättää kertoa tapahtuneesta ainoastaan uudelle rakastetulleen Oonalle.

Pian vastaavia tapauksia raportoidaan jo ympäri maata, ja ne herättävät ihmisissä pelkoa totutun järjestyksen kumoutumisesta. Andersin ja Oonan suhteen syventyessä he huomaavat muutoksen kuitenkin tarjoavan myös mahdollisuuden aivan uudenlaiseen kohtaamiseen.

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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''.

© Mohsin Hamid 2014 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover this surprising gem - the sharp, funny and irresistible debut novel from the bestselling author of Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist'You know you're in trouble when you can't meet a woman's eye, particularly if the woman happens to be your best friend's wife...'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?'Subtly audacious . . . A steamy and often darkly amusing book about sex, drugs, and class warfare in postcolonial Asia' Village Voice(c) Mohsin Hamid 2000 (P) Penguin Audio 2022