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Globalization and the City in Mohsin Hamid’s Novels

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you marvel at the resilience and potential of those around you, particularly of the youth in this city, in this, the era of cities, bound by its airport and fiber-optic cables to every great metropolis, collectively forming, even if tenuously, a change-scented urban archipelago spanning not just rising Asia but the entire planet.

–– Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

There is a particular and intimate relationship between Mohsin Hamid and the worlds of cities. From his first novel, Moth Smoke (2000), which made the urban space of Lahore the setting for an entirely fresh exploration of modern Pakistani life, Hamid’s prose has consistently delved deep into the relationships between people and cities, in particular large global metropoles like New York. His characters escape to and from cities. They lose and find themselves in cities. They love and they hate these cities. They experience cities as complex characters whose souls can be hurt andas structures that do not always...

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    Adnan Mahmutović

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Mahmutović, A. (2022). Globalization and the City in Mohsin Hamid’s Novels. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62419-8_252

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