The last white man

Resource Information

The work The last white man represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charleston County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The last white man

Statement of responsibility

Mohsin Hamid

Creator

• Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-

Author

• Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-

Subject

• Magic realist fiction
• Racism -- Fiction
• Science fiction
• Human skin color -- Fiction
• Teachers -- Fiction
• Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction

Genre

• Science fiction
• Magic realist fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them. Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded overturning of the established order that must be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss and unease wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance at a kind of rebirth--an opportunity to see ourselves, face to face, anew. In Mohsin Hamid's "lyrical and urgent" prose (O Magazine), The Last White Man uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence it allows, a migration of consciousness powerfully enacted by the novel itself"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3558.A42169

LC item number

L37 2022

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult