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Pankaj Mishra's books include The Romantics, which won the LA Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for fiction, Age of Anger and From the Ruins of Empire. He contributes political and literary essays to the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.Pankaj Mishra transforms a visceral, intimate story of one man's humble origins into a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society bedazzled by power and wealth - what it means on a human level, and what it costs. <b><i>Run and Hide</i> is a spectacular, illuminating work of fiction</b>
- Jennifer Egan,
In his first novel in more than 20 years, acclaimed essayist Mishra splices a cautionary tale with elegant examination of globalisation and the perils of the changing world order. <b>Immensely thought-provoking</b>
Mail on Sunday
The first novel in more than 20 years from the essayist and cultural analyst Pankaj Mishra is as <b>sharp, provocative and engagé</b> as you'd expect... As an exuberant chronicle of a late capitalist world fatally mediated by Twitter and Instagram, <b><i>Run and Hide</i> might be the most zeitgeisty novel you could read</b>
Spectator
A wonderfully rich and enjoyable novel . . . a work for our time and one that will surely be read many years on for what will then be its historical interest . . . <b>a novel built to last</b>
Scotsman
A lyrical letter from the new India...a profoundly literary voice, as interested in how to write about a subject as the subject itself
Guardian
Terrific . . . <b>elegantly written, incisively observed, and deeply satisfying to read</b>
- Kamila Shamsie,
This powerful novel is a searing examination of our recent cultural and political trajectory, a surprising meditation on the role of the writer in times such as ours, a fragile love story, and an unforgiving look at where we are headed. <b>It is, in other words, a book that demands to be read and rewards reading</b>
- Mohsin Hamid,
The changing forms of his writing, always straining to encompass the chaotic reality Mishra sees around himself, reveal him to be a profoundly literary voice, as interested in how to write about a subject as the subject itself...After the density of his recent books, with their weighty bibliographies, <b>Mishra's fictional prose is permitted, once again, to take lyrical flight</b>
Guardian
Pankaj Mishra returns to fiction after two decades with a gripping and remarkable novel - <b>his best work yet</b>. It captures the trajectory of our time through insights and moments that are startling, pure, and have a strange inevitability
- Amit Chaudhuri,
A profound, extraordinarily written, and devastating exploration of the ways the personal is always already the political. <b>Unforgettable</b>
- Neel Mukherjee,
FROM 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 SHAMSIE
Arun and his two classmates, Aseem and Virendra, are the success stories of their generation. As graduates of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, they have smashed social barriers and played-out Gatsby-style fantasies across the globe.
Run and Hide is a lyrical and piercing story of morality, materialism and upheaval in an every-changing world.
'Sharp, provocative and engaging . . . Run and Hide might be the most zeitgeisty novel you could read' SPECTATOR
'One of the finest, bravest writers we have' JUNOT DIAZ
'It'll entertain the hell out of you' MOHAMMED HANIF
'A novel of loss and moral collapse worthy of Henry James' JOSHUA FERRIS