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A review by moris_deri
Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London by Mohsin Hamid
2.0
Have you ever opened a bottle of Moët that you have kept for a while waiting for that one special occasion, only for the excitement to be doused by the sad epiphany that the wine was flat? That’s exactly how I felt after 200 pages of this bore.
This is akin to something an established author has to release in between his better books because the publisher expects him to so do. There is nothing profound in this – just random, half-baked observations of his world as he travels back and forth between Asia and the UK.
This is akin to something an established author has to release in between his better books because the publisher expects him to so do. There is nothing profound in this – just random, half-baked observations of his world as he travels back and forth between Asia and the UK.