Mohsin Hamid to Present in Pittsburgh

26 Mar 2018

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Mohsin Hamid to present as part of the Drue Heinz Trust Series in Pittsburgh, March 26, 2018. Single Tickets go on sale July 5, 2017.
Hamid's book Exit Wes is book being discussed at the CERIS book discussion on October 27, 2017 at Seton Hill University. A free book is available for to those who sign up at http://www.cerisnet.org/resource/faculty-readers-forum.

Single tickets on sale July 5, 2017
https://pittsburghlectures.org/tickets/

Made possible by the Drue Heinz Trust
“By mixing the real and the surreal, and using old fairy-tale magic, Hamid has created a fictional universe that captures the global perils percolating beneath today’s headlines.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES

Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Exit West is a visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands.

In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through.

Exit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.

Mohsin Hamid is the internationally bestselling author of Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Discontent and its Civilizations, and Exit West. His award-winning novels have been adapted for the cinema and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His essays and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker.
More about Mohsin Hamid

Event Date: 
Monday, March 26, 2018 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Institution(s): 
Sponsored By: 
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
Location: 
Carnegie Music Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15213
Target Audience: 
General Public
Presenter Type: 
Independent Consultant