The Last White Man

A NEW YORKER"ESSENTIAL READ"

ANEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BYTHE NEW YORKER,VOGUE, AND NPR

"Perhaps Hamid's most remarkable work yet an extraordinary vision of human possibility." -Ayad Akhtar, author ofHomeland Elegies

"Searing, exhilarating reimagines Kafka's iconicThe Metamorphosisfor our racially charged era." Hamilton Cain, Oprah Daily

From theNew York Times-bestselling author ofExit 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 Manpowerfully uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence over bigotry, fear, and anger it can achieve.