Screen LibraryThe last white man /
One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders' skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the...
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Riverhead Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2023. ©2022 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Riverhead trade paperback edition. |
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One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders' skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them. Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded overturning of the established order that must be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders' father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss and unease wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance at a kind of rebirth--an opportunity to see ourselves, face to face, anew. In Mohsin Hamid's "lyrical and urgent" prose (O Magazine), The Last White Man uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence it allows, a migration of consciousness powerfully enacted by the novel itself"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 180 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780593538821 059353882X |
| Index Number: | PS3558 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/H216 |