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'His great book ... masterly in its prescience and its lucidity'
ANITA DESAI A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of
imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate of individuals
caught in the great political and cultural conflicts of their age.
It begins when Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in
the Indian town of Chandrapore, and feel trapped by its insular and
prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real
India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr
Aziz. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the
Marabar caves, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at
the centre of a scandal. Edited by OLIVER STALLYBRASS with an
Introduction by PANKAJ MISHRA
THE FIRST NOVEL IN TWENTY YEARS BY THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE
OF ANGER '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 town. He is
about to enrol in the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology,
determined to make something of himself. But once there, he meets
two friends who are prepared to go to unimaginable lengths to
succeed. In just a few years, Arun's friends become the success
stories of their generation. In private planes and expensive cars,
from New York to Tuscany, they play out their Gatsby-style
fantasies. In reality, someone is about to pay for their many
transgressions, but who exactly will it be? Will it be Arun? Will
it be Alia, a female writer and influencer, who is piecing together
the story of a global financial scandal? Run and Hide is a novel
about a group of friends in an age of upheaval and breakdown; it is
a story for our times. _____________________ 'Pankaj Mishra returns
to fiction after two decades with a gripping and remarkable novel -
his best work yet. It captures the trajectory of our time through
insights and moments that are startling, pure, and have a strange
inevitability' AMIT CHAUDHURI 'Pankaj Mishra kept us waiting 20
years for a new novel, and it becomes apparent, as soon as you pick
up Run and Hide, that time has honed one of our greatest writing
talents. The narrative draws you in more keenly than any boxset and
the prose shimmers with wisdom. Marvellous' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'A
profound, extraordinarily written, and devastating exploration of
the ways the personal is always already the political.
Unforgettable' NEEL MUKHERJEE 'It is the coup de literature our
demented age needs from one of the finest, bravest writers we have'
JUNOT DIAZ
An artist paints landscapes of faraway places that she cannot
identify in order to find her place in the global economy. A
migrant worker sorts recyclables and thinks deeply about the soul
of his country, while a Taoist mystic struggles to keep his
traditions alive. An entrepreneur capitalizes on a growing car
culture by trying to convince people not to buy cars. And a
90-year-old woman remembers how the oldest neighborhoods of her
city used to be. These are the exciting and saddening, humorous and
confusing stories of utterly ordinary people who are living through
China's extraordinary transformations. The immense variety in the
lives of these Chinese characters dispels any lingering sense that
China has a monolithic population or is just a place where
dissidents fight Communist Party loyalists and laborers create
goods for millionaires. "Chinese Characters" is a collection, as
Pankaj Mishra writes in his foreword, "to herald a new golden age
of journalism about a ceaselessly fascinating country."
Contributors include a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a
Macarthur Fellow, the China correspondent to a major Indian
newspaper, and scholars whose depth of understanding is matched
only by the humanity with which they treat their subjects. Their
stories together create a multi-faceted portrait of a country in
motion and an introduction to some of the best writing on China
today. With contributions from: Alec Ash, James Carter, Leslie T.
Chang, Xujun Eberlein, Harriet Evans, Anna Greenspan, Peter
Hessler, Ian Johnson, Ananth Krishnan, Christina Larson, Michelle
Dammon Loyalka, James Millward, Evan Osnos, Jeffrey Prescott, and
Megan Shank.
A "Financial Times" and "The Economist" Best Book of the Year and a
"New York Times" Book Review Editors' Choice
A SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTING THE THINKERS WHOSE IDEAS
SHAPED CONTEMPORARY CHINA, INDIA, AND THE MUSLIM WORLD
A little more than a century ago, independent thinkers across Asia
sought to frame a distinct intellectual tradition that would
inspire the continent's rise to dominance. Yet this did not come to
pass, and today those thinkers--Tagore, Gandhi, and later Nehru in
India; Liang Qichao and Sun Yat-sen in China; Jamal al-Din
al-Afghani and Abdurreshi al Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire--are
seen as outsiders within the main anticolonial tradition. But as
Pankaj Mishra demonstrates in this enthralling portrait of like
minds, Asia's revolt against the West is not the one led by
faith-fired terrorists and thwarted peasants; rather, it is rooted
in the ideas of these once renowned intellectuals. Now, when the
ascendency of Asia seems possible as never before, "From the Ruins
of Empire" is as necessary as it is timely--a book indispensable to
our understanding of the world and our place in it.
Winner of the booker prize.
India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers
turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of
convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's "The Siege of
Krishnapur," widely considered one of the finest British novels of
the last fifty years.
Farrell's story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the
subcontinent. Rumors of strife filter in from afar, and yet the
members of the colonial community remain confident of their
military and, above all, moral superiority. But when they find
themselves under actual siege, the true character of their
dominion--at once brutal, blundering, and wistful--is soon
revealed. "The Siege of Krishnapur" is a companion to "Troubles,"
about the Easter 1916 rebellion in Ireland, and "The Singapore
Grip," which takes place just before World War II, as the sun
begins to set upon the British Empire. Together these three novels
offer an unequaled picture of the follies of empire.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR '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 of A Passage to India' THE NEW YORK
REVIEW OF BOOKS WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM
AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION 1989. In the holy city of Varanasi,
19-year-old Samar rents a room to avoid a small-town job and lose
himself in reading about worlds outside of India. But when he is
thrust into local a circle of privileged European and American
expats, led by the charismatic Miss West, Samar will soon face his
own silent desires and crumbling beliefs. 'A work of art' Financial
Times 'A supernova' The Washington Post 'A charming debut' The
Independent
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 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL
PRIZE 2013 Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress,
the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. As
the British gunned down the last heirs to the Mughal Empire or
burned down the Summer Palace in Beijing, it was clear that for
Asia to recover a new way of thinking was needed. Pankaj Mishra
re-tells the history of the past two centuries, showing how a
remarkable, disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radicals and
charismatics emerged from the ruins of empire to create an
unstoppable Asian renaissance, one whose ideas lie behind
everything from the Chinese Communist Party to the Muslim
Brotherhood, and have made our world what it is today. Reviews:
'Arrestingly original ... this penetrating and disquieting book
should be on the reading list of anybody who wants to understand
where we are today' John Gray, Independent 'A riveting account that
makes new and illuminating connections ... deeply entertaining and
deeply humane' Hisham Matar 'Fascinating ... a rich and genuinely
thought-provoking book' Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph
'Provocative, shaming and convincing' Michael Binyon, The Times
'Lively ... engaging ... retains the power to shock' Mark Mazower,
Financial Times 'Subtle, erudite and entertaining' Economist, New
Delhi About the author: Pankaj Mishra is the author of Butter
Chicken in Ludiana, The Romantics, An End to Suffering and
Temptations of the West. He writes principally for the Guardian,
The New York Times, London Review of Books and New York Review of
Books. He lives in London, Shimla and New York.
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The Other Hundred (Hardcover, New)
Chandran Nair; Introduction by Pankaj Mishra; Compiled by Global Institute for Tomorrow; Afterword by Amy Goodman
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The Forbes 100, the Fortune 500, Bloomberg's Billionaire
Index...the list of rich lists is endless. Here instead are the
stories of The Other Hundred - those people who aren't among the
world's rich, but whose lives should be celebrated. Chosen by a
world-renowned judging panel of Stephen Wilkes ,Richard Hsu, and
Ruth Eichhorn, the 100 stunning photographs that comprise The Other
Hundred provide glimpses into the lives of real people and their
struggles, triumphs, hopes and dreams.
FROM 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 SHAMSIE
Arun and his two classmates, Aseem and Virendra, are the success
stories of their generation. As graduates of the prestigious Indian
Institute of Technology, they have smashed social barriers and
played-out Gatsby-style fantasies across the globe. Run and Hide is
a lyrical and piercing story of morality, materialism and upheaval
in an every-changing world. 'Sharp, provocative and engaging . . .
Run and Hide might be the most zeitgeisty novel you could read'
SPECTATOR 'One of the finest, bravest writers we have' JUNOT DIAZ
'It'll entertain the hell out of you' MOHAMMED HANIF 'A novel of
loss and moral collapse worthy of Henry James' JOSHUA FERRIS
An artist paints landscapes of faraway places that she cannot
identify in order to find her place in the global economy. A
migrant worker sorts recyclables and thinks deeply about the soul
of his country, while a Taoist mystic struggles to keep his
traditions alive. An entrepreneur capitalizes on a growing car
culture by trying to convince people not to buy cars. And a
90-year-old woman remembers how the oldest neighborhoods of her
city used to be. These are the exciting and saddening, humorous and
confusing stories of utterly ordinary people who are living through
China's extraordinary transformations. The immense variety in the
lives of these Chinese characters dispels any lingering sense that
China has a monolithic population or is just a place where
dissidents fight Communist Party loyalists and laborers create
goods for millionaires. "Chinese Characters" is a collection, as
Pankaj Mishra writes in his foreword, "to herald a new golden age
of journalism about a ceaselessly fascinating country."
Contributors include a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a
Macarthur Fellow, the China correspondent to a major Indian
newspaper, and scholars whose depth of understanding is matched
only by the humanity with which they treat their subjects. Their
stories together create a multi-faceted portrait of a country in
motion and an introduction to some of the best writing on China
today. With contributions from: Alec Ash, James Carter, Leslie T.
Chang, Xujun Eberlein, Harriet Evans, Anna Greenspan, Peter
Hessler, Ian Johnson, Ananth Krishnan, Christina Larson, Michelle
Dammon Loyalka, James Millward, Evan Osnos, Jeffrey Prescott, and
Megan Shank.
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 fantasists,
taking on its arguments and the atmosphere in which it has festered
and become influential. In essays that grapple with colonialism,
human rights, and the doubling down of liberalism against a
background of faltering economies and weakening Anglo-American
hegemony, Mishra confronts writers from Jordan Peterson and Niall
Ferguson to Salman Rushdie and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. With a newly
written introduction, these essays provide a vantage point from
which to look seriously at the current crisis.
The life of Gandhi, in his own words 150th Anniversary Edition with
a New Introduction by Pankaj Mishra 'Generations to come will
scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh
and blood' Albert Einstein upon the death of M. K. Gandhi Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi was born in western India in 1869. He was
educated in London and later travelled to South Africa, where he
experienced racism and took up the rights of Indians, instituting
his first campaign of passive resistance. In 1915 he returned to
British-controlled India, bringing to a country in the throes of
independence his commitment to non-violent change, and his belief
always in the power of truth. Under Gandhi's lead, millions of
protesters would engage in mass campaigns of civil disobedience,
seeking change through moral conversion of the colonizers. For
Gandhi, the long path towards Indian independence would lead to
imprisonment and hardship, yet he never once forgot the principles
of truth and non-violence so dear to him. Written in the 1920s,
Gandhi's autobiography tells not only of his struggles and
inspirations but also speaks frankly of his failures. It is a
powerful and enduring account of an extraordinary life. 'Christ
gave us the goals and Mahatma Gandhi the tactics' Martin Luther
King Jr. 'I have the greatest admiration for Mahatma Gandhi. He was
a great human being with a deep understanding of human nature. His
life has inspired me' The Dalai Lama 'Gandhi's ideas have played a
vital role in South Africa's transformation and with the help of
Gandhi's teaching, apartheid has been overcome' Nelson Mandela
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE
YEAR 2017 'The kind of vision the world needs right now...Pankaj
Mishra shouldn't stop thinking' Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial
Times 'This is the most astonishing, convincing, and disturbing
book I've read in years' Joe Sacco 'Urgent, profound and
extraordinarily timely' John Banville How 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
Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to
racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra
answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth
century, before leading us to the present. He shows that as the
world became modern those who were unable to fulfil its promises -
freedom, stability and prosperity - were increasingly susceptible
to demagogues. The many who came late to this new world or were
left, or pushed, behind, reacted in horrifyingly similar ways:
intense hatred of invented enemies, attempts to re-create an
imaginary golden age, and self-empowerment through spectacular
violence. It was from among the ranks of the disaffected that the
militants of the 19th century arose - angry young men who became
cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic revolutionaries in
Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, and anarchist terrorists
internationally. Today, just as then, the wider embrace of mass
politics, technology, and the pursuit of wealth and individualism
has cast many more millions adrift in a literally demoralized
world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity - with
the same terrible results Making startling connections and
comparisons, Age of Anger is a book of immense urgency and profound
argument. It is a history of our present predicament unlike any
other.
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Kim (Paperback, New ed)
Rudyard Kipling; Introduction by Pankaj Mishra
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all
time
Filled with lyrical, exotic prose and nostalgia for Rudyard
Kipling's native India, "Kim" is widely acknowledged as the
author's greatest novel and a key element in his winning the 1907
Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the tale of an orphaned sahib and
the burdensome fate that awaits him when he is unwittingly dragged
into the Great Game of Imperialism. During his many adventures, he
befriends a sage old Tibetan lama who transforms his life. As
Pankaj Mishra asserts in his Introduction, "To read the novel now
is to notice the melancholy wisdom that accompanies the native
boy's journey through a broad and open road to the narrow duties of
the white man's world: how the deeper Buddhist idea of the illusion
of the self, of time and space, makes bearable for him the anguish
of abandoning his childhood."
THE FIRST NOVEL IN TWENTY YEARS BY THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE
OF ANGER '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 town. He is
about to enrol in the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology,
determined to make something of himself. But once there, he meets
two friends who are prepared to go to unimaginable lengths to
succeed. In just a few years, Arun's friends become the success
stories of their generation. In private planes and expensive cars,
from New York to Tuscany, they play out their Gatsby-style
fantasies. In reality, someone is about to pay for their many
transgressions, but who exactly will it be? Will it be Arun? Will
it be Alia, a female writer and influencer, who is piecing together
the story of a global financial scandal? Run and Hide is a novel
about a group of friends in an age of upheaval and breakdown; it is
a story for our times. _____________________ 'Pankaj Mishra returns
to fiction after two decades with a gripping and remarkable novel -
his best work yet. It captures the trajectory of our time through
insights and moments that are startling, pure, and have a strange
inevitability' AMIT CHAUDHURI 'Pankaj Mishra kept us waiting 20
years for a new novel, and it becomes apparent, as soon as you pick
up Run and Hide, that time has honed one of our greatest writing
talents. The narrative draws you in more keenly than any boxset and
the prose shimmers with wisdom. Marvellous' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'A
profound, extraordinarily written, and devastating exploration of
the ways the personal is always already the political.
Unforgettable' NEEL MUKHERJEE 'It is the coup de literature our
demented age needs from one of the finest, bravest writers we have'
JUNOT DIAZ
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The Time Regulation Institute (Paperback)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar; Translated by Alexander Dawe, Maureen Freely; Introduction by Pankaj Mishra
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A literary discovery: an uproarious tragicomedy of modernization,
in its first-ever English translation
Perhaps the greatest Turkish novel of the twentieth century, being
discovered around the world only now, more than fifty years after
its first publication, "The Time Regulation Institute" is an antic,
freewheeling send-up of the modern bureaucratic state.
At its center is Hayri Irdal, an infectiously charming antihero
who becomes entangled with an eccentric cast of characters--a
television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary
from the lost Ottoman Empire, a "clock whisperer"--at the Time
Regulation Institute, a vast organization that employs a
hilariously intricate system of fines for the purpose of changing
all the clocks in Turkey to Western time. Recounted in sessions
with his psychoanalyst, the story of Hayri Irdal's absurdist
misadventures plays out as a brilliant allegory of the collision of
tradition and modernity, of East and West, infused with a poignant
blend of hope for the promise of the future and nostalgia for a
simpler time.
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