This powerful and original novel explores timely themes through a moving love story with a heart-stopping ending. It follows a young Pakistani man settled in New York who finds himself caught between his roots and his new life - a potent exploration of the personal and international consequences of the friction between East & West.
Klappentext
This powerful and original novel explores timely themes through a moving love story with a heart-stopping ending. It follows a young Pakistani man settled in New York who finds himself caught between his roots and his new life - a potent exploration of the personal and international consequences of the friction between East & West. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007. 'Beautifully written and superbly constructed...a tale of enormous tension (and) a subtle and elegant analysis of our world today' Philip Pullman.
Biografie
Mohsin Hamid, geboren 1971, wuchs in Lahore, Pakistan, auf, studierte Jura in Princeton und Harvard und arbeitete in New York. Für seinen ersten Roman »Nachtschmetterlinge« erhielt er den Betty-Trask-Preis, sein Debüt wurde außerdem für den PEN/Hemingway Award nominiert und von der New York Times auf die Liste der bedeutendsten Bücher des Jahres 2000 gewählt. Hamid schreibt u.a. für Time, Guardian und New York Times. Er lebt in London.
