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Back in Lahore, Hamid gets to grip with a writer鈥檚 solitary life, developing his craft and his fitness. Read by Sanjeev Baskhar.

Back in Lahore, rising young author Mohsin Hamid gets to grip with the writer's solitary life, and, inspired by writers he loves, develops both his craft as a writer - and his fitness.

These timely 'dispatches from Lahore, New York and London' encompassing memoir, art and politics, collect the best essays of the award-winning author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid.

Hamid makes a compelling case for recognising our common humanity while relishing our diversity, for resisting the artificial mono-identities of religion or nationality or race, and for always judging a country or nation by how it treats its minorities as 'Each individual human being is, after all, a minority of one'.

Read by Sanjeev Baskhar

Abridged by Eileen Horne

Producer: Clive Brill

A Brill production for 麻豆社 Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2014.

15 minutes

Credits

Role Contributor
Author Mohsin Hamid
Abridger Eileen Horne
Producer Clive Brill
Reader Sanjeev Bhaskar

Broadcasts

  • Wed 3 Dec 2014 09:45
  • Thu 4 Dec 2014 00:30
  • Wed 4 Sep 2019 14:45
  • Thu 5 Sep 2019 02:45

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