The Last White Man

A Novel

By: Mohsin Hamid

Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid

A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VOGUE, AND NPR

“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.

Best difficult read. And

If you must live in a world that tells you who you’re supposed to be and then changes it suddenly well….

The narrator was monotone.

Interesting story About the prejudices of skin color. And family dynamics of skin color change.

this seems pretty cool

<h1>My First Heading</h1>

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this s going to be <em> EMPHASIZED</em>


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Thought Provoking

I couldn't stop listening to this thoughtful and tender story. I will think about this one for quite a while.

Don't let the title fool you!

I liked the twist that put on this story, a very subtle way to deal with the issue of race and racism. I don't want to blow it, but all I can say is, the last White is not the last White man!