The Last White Man

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The Last White Man
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Author Mohsin Hamid
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
Publication date
August 2, 2022
ISBN 9780593538814

The Last White Man is a 2022 novel by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid. It is Hamid's fifth novel. [1] The main themes of the book are love, loss, change, and identity. [2] The Last White Man was longlisted for the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize. [3] [4]

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Summary

The novel uses the technique of magical realism, and it is about a white man, Anders, who one morning wakes up to find himself changed to a darker skin color and a different, unfamiliar appearance. Soon, more people begin to experience the same changes, and society finds itself divided and puzzled with questions about race, privilege, loss, love, belonging. [5]

Hamid published a short story on the same theme as 'The Face in the Mirror' in the same year as the novel. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid". Penguin Random House. Archived from the original on 2022-08-21. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  2. ↑ Gunaratne, Guy (2022-08-03). "The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid review – a hypnotic race fable". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 2022-08-21. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  3. ↑ "2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist". Aspen Words. Archived from the original on 2022-03-01. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  4. ↑ Schaub, Michael (2022-12-12). "Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist Is Revealed". Kirkus Reviews . Archived from the original on 2023-03-07. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  5. ↑ "'The Last White Man' spins a deft, if narrow, fantasy about identity". NPR.org. Archived from the original on 2022-08-21. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  6. ↑ Mohsin Hamid, 'The Face in the Mirror Archived 2023-09-19 at the Wayback Machine ', New Yorker (May 16, 2022), 60–67.
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