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Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
Category: Politics
Modernity, secularism, development, and progress have long been viewed by the powerful few as benign ideals for the many. Today, however, botched experiments in nation-building, democracy, industrialization and urbanization visibly scar much of the world. As once happened in Europe, the wider embrace of ...Show more
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
Category: Politics
One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism ac ...Show more
Age of Anger : A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
Category: Non-Fiction
'Urgent, profound and extraordinarily timely...throws light on our contemporary predicament, when the neglected and dispossessed of the world have suddenly risen up to transform the world we thought we knew' John Banville How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem ine ...Show more
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
Category: Politics
One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis.A New York Times Notable Book of 2017How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, ...Show more
Bland Fanatics - Liberals, the West and the Afterlives of Empires by Pankaj Mishra
Category: Politics
Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines this hysteria and its f ...Show more
From the Ruins of Empire - The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra
Category: History
Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image - shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013. It is shortlisted for the Orwell prize 2013. Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by As ...Show more
Run And Hide by Pankaj Mishra
Category: Fiction
A spectacular, illuminating work of fiction' Jennifer Egan'Terrific . . . Elegantly written, incisively observed, and deeply satisfying to read' Kamila Shamsie 'A book that demands to be read and rewards reading' Mohsin Hamid_____________________Arun knows there is only way out of this small railway to ...Show more
Run And Hide by Pankaj Mishra
Category: Fiction
'Marvellous' SATHNAM SANGHERAFROM THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER COMES A GATSBY-ESQUE TALE OF WEALTH AND AMBITION'A book that demands to be read' MOHSIN HAMID 'Terrific . . . deeply satisfying to read' KAMILA SHAMSIEArun and his two classmates, Aseem and Virendra, are the success stories of th ...Show more
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
Category: Fiction
'If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this' THE TIMES'The Romantics looks to Flaubert's Sentimental Education, to E.M. Forster, to Turgenev. But it is the product of a distinctive and sharp intelligence' HILARY MANTEL'Grips the reader as artfully and as compellingly as the first page ...Show more
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