Discontent and Its Civilizations - Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London

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''.