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Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
$50.00 AUD
Category: War
Modernity, secularism, development, and progress have long been viewed by the powerful few as benign ideals for the many. Today, however, botched experiments in nation-building, democracy, industrialization and urbanization visibly scar much of the world. As once happened in Europe, the wider embrace of ...Show more
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
$23.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis.A New York Times Notable Book of 2017How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, ...Show more
Bland Fanatics - Liberals, the West and the Afterlives of Empires by Pankaj Mishra
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines this hysteria and its f ...Show more
From the Ruins of Empire - The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world. A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the Battle of Tsushima, original thinkers across Asia, working independently, sought to ...Show more
Run And Hide by Pankaj Mishra
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Marvellous' SATHNAM SANGHERAFROM THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER COMES A GATSBY-ESQUE TALE OF WEALTH AND AMBITION'A book that demands to be read' MOHSIN HAMID 'Terrific . . . deeply satisfying to read' KAMILA SHAMSIEArun and his two classmates, Aseem and Virendra, are the success stories of th ...Show more
Run And Hide by Pankaj Mishra
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A spectacular, illuminating work of fiction' Jennifer Egan'Terrific . . . Elegantly written, incisively observed, and deeply satisfying to read' Kamila Shamsie 'A book that demands to be read and rewards reading' Mohsin Hamid_____________________Arun knows there is only way out of this small railway to ...Show more
Temptations of the West : How to be modern in India and beyond by Pankaj Mishra
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
From Bollywood stars in Bombay worrying whether they are sexy enough to a heroin addict in Pakistan mocking jihad; from Indian mafia dons with political ambitions to Afghans waiting for American benevolence; from Kashmiri Muslims longing for democracy to Tibetan Buddhists fighting to preserve religion i ...Show more
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this' THE TIMES'The Romantics looks to Flaubert's Sentimental Education, to E.M. Forster, to Turgenev. But it is the product of a distinctive and sharp intelligence' HILARY MANTEL'Grips the reader as artfully and as compellingly as the first page ...Show more
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