01894cam a2200277 i 4500 601170367 TxAuBib 20220809120000.0 210722s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593538814 0593538811 TxAuBib rda Hamid, Mohsin, 1971- The last white man / Mohsin Hamid. New York : Riverhead Books, [2022] 180 pages. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20220809. Teachers Fiction. Racism Fiction. Change Fiction. Identity (Psychology) Fiction.