# Discontent and Its Civilizations

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- Authors: [Mohsin Hamid](https://www.bookquiver.com/mohsin-hamid)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4114-632-3
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2015-08-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Discontent and its Civilizations collects the best of Mohsin Hamid's writing on subjects as diverse and wide-ranging as Pakistan; fatherhood; the death of Osama Bin Laden and the writing of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Unified by the author's humane, clear-headed and witty voice, the book makes a compelling case for recognizing our common humanity while relishing our diversity - both as readers and citizens; 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'.