discontent and its civilizations: dispatches from lahore, new york, and london

Foreign policys 100 leading global thinkers in 2013 were born with an in-built capacity for language it is wired into our brains, just as an in-built capacity for breathing is wired into our lungs we need language we need language to tell stories we need stories to create a self alongside his highly acclaimed novels, mohsin hamid has written superb pieces over the years about politics, literature and his own life collected together for the first time, they show that hamid is not just a great novelist but a master critic of the modern global condition provocative, dexterous, full of ideas - this is a sparkling collection