Left Bank Books presents online: Mohsin Hamid - "Last White Man"

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Jillian Edelstein

Left Bank Books Presents ONLINE: Mohsin Hamid - "Last White Man"

Left Bank Books and Books & Books with Miami Book Fair + independent bookstores welcome acclaimed & award-winning author Mohsin Hamid, for a special virtual event to celebrate the release of "The Last White Man", in an exclusive online event at 6 p.m. CT 7 p.m. ET on Saturday, August 6th. Order a copy of "The Last White Man" from Left Bank Books or RSVP to gain access to the event & support authors and independent bookstores!

Please purchase before August 6th, 5 p.m. CT to gain access to the event. An email will be sent on the day of the event for attendees. If you are not able to attend live, a recording will be available a few days after the event for people who have purchased the book.

Mohsin Hamid is the author of five novels, including the Booker Prize finalists and New York Times bestsellers "Exit West" and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist". His essays, some collected as "Discontent and Its Civilizations", have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. He divides his time between Lahore, New York, and London.

"Perhaps Hamid's most remarkable work yet ... an extraordinary vision of human possibility." -Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies

"Searing, exhilarating ... reimagines Kafka's iconic The Metamorphosis for our racially charged era." Hamilton Cain, Oprah Daily.

From the New York Times-bestselling author of "Exit West", a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change.

One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's 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's 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" powerfully uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence over bigotry, fear, and anger it can achieve.