The Last White Man

The Last White Man is a 2022 novel by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid. It is Hamid's fifth novel.[1] The main themes of the book are love, loss, change, and identity.[2] The novel belongs to the genre of Magic realism, and it is about a white man, Anders, who one morning wakes up to find himself changed to a darker skin color and a different, unfamiliar appearance. Soon, more people begin to experience the same changes, and society finds itself divided and puzzled with questions about race, privilege, loss, love, belonging.[3]

The Last White Man
AuthorMohsin Hamid
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
Publication date
August 2, 2022
ISBN9780593538814

References

  1. "The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  2. Gunaratne, Guy (2022-08-03). "The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid review – a hypnotic race fable". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  3. "'The Last White Man' spins a deft, if narrow, fantasy about identity". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-08-22.


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