The Last White Man

From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change

One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an established order, to be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance to see one another, face to face, anew.

Praise for Exit West

'Hamid's enticing strategy is to foreground the humanity... [He] exploits fiction's capacity to elicit empathy and identification to imagine a better world.' — The New York Times Book Review

'Lyrical and urgent ... peels away the dross of bigotry to expose the beauty of our common humanity.' — O, the Oprah Magazine

'Powerful, vivid, poignant ... Hamid is the master' The Sunday Times

'Astonishing' Zadie Smith

'[An] exceptionally moving and powerful novel' The Guardian

• Author
• Mohsin Hamid

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 240

• Publisher
• Hamish Hamilton

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-241-56657-2

• EAN
• 9780241566572

• Release date
• 2022