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by Hamid, Mohsin | USA
Published 11/08/2022 by Penguin Books Ltd (Hamish Hamilton Ltd) in the United Kingdom
Hardback | 192 pages
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.
‘Gorgeously crafted . . .
The Last White Man concludes on a note of hope, a door jarred open just enough to let transcendence pour through’ O, the Oprah Magazine ‘The electric premise, borrowed from Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, looks set to update a classic to make it urgently relevant’ Evening Standard’A hypnotic race fable . . .
In the hands of such a deft and humane writer as Hamid, a bizarre construct is moved far beyond any mere ‘what if” Guardian
