Author: mohsinhamid

“Breathtaking” (NPR): Nadia and Saeed try to survive in a war-torn city — only to realize they must flee their homeland forever. “It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future” (The New York Times Book Review).

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times bestseller A Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A New York Times Notable Book “Extreme times call for extreme reactions, extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary with this novel.”–Washington Post At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As … Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter . . .          …