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

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

Mohsin Hamid

240 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics challenging emotional medium-paced
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In Discontent and Its Civilizations, Mohsin Hamid traces the fracture lines generated by a decade and a half of seismic change, from the "war on terror" to the struggles of individuals to maintain humanity in the rigid face of ideology, or the ind...

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informative 94%
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emotional 17%
funny 11%
inspiring 11%
dark 5%
tense 5%

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slow 12%

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