The award-winning novelist Mohsin Hamid recently published a new book, a collection of essays, written over the last 14 years, while he was living in New York, London, and Lahore, Pakistan, the city of his birth. The book is called Discontents and its Civilizations. Hamid talks about his new work in advance of his Friday night talk at the Ivy Bookshop.
His books have been international best sellers, and they’ve been translated into more than thirty languages. Moth Smoke, his first novel, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize. His second, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, was short listed for the Man Booker Prize, and made into a movie in 2013. His third novel was the critically acclaimed best-seller, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.
