Run And Hide

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. Run and Hide is a spectacular, illuminating work of fiction -- 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. Immensely thought-provoking * Mail on Sunday * The first novel in more than 20 years from the essayist and cultural analyst Pankaj Mishra is as sharp, provocative and engage as you'd expect... As an exuberant chronicle of a late capitalist world fatally mediated by Twitter and Instagram, Run and Hide might be the most zeitgeisty novel you could read * 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 . . . a novel built to last * 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 . . . elegantly written, incisively observed, and deeply satisfying to read -- 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. It is, in other words, a book that demands to be read and rewards reading -- 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, Mishra's fictional prose is permitted, once again, to take lyrical flight * Guardian * Pankaj Mishra returns to fiction after two decades with a gripping and remarkable novel - his best work yet. 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. Unforgettable -- Neel Mukherjee Pankaj Mishra writes with great intelligence and lyrical beauty about the perennial struggle for dignity and stability in a rapidly changing world - and how, in this process, identities are reinvented, reclaimed or renegotiated -- Laila Lalami Pankaj Mishra kept us waiting 20 years for a new novel, and it becomes apparent, as soon as you pick up Run and Hide, that time has honed one of our greatest writing talents. The narrative draws you in more keenly than any boxset and the prose shimmers with wisdom. Marvellous -- Sathnam Sanghera Run and Hide is achingly irresistible and terrifyingly bracing - like seeing yourself or your world, without illusion, for the first time. It is the coup de literature our demented age needs from one of the finest, bravest writers we have -- Junot Diaz I was left hoping I won't have to wait another 20 years for Mishra's next novel * i Paper * Run and Hide, is an exciting follow-up to his 1999 debut, The Romantics . . . Mishra brings to bear both the high style of his fiction and the clarity of his criticism for an affecting, world-spanning story about capitalism, art, and globalization * Vulture, 49 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2022 * Run and Hide is savage and tender, and shockingly spiritual. This book may not change your life but it'll entertain the hell out of you -- Mohammed Hanif There is tragedy when a spurned and forsaken world turns out to be a paradise in disguise, and when it calls its children home, the children are too unmoored, too compromised to return. That is the monumental, ultra-modern drama Pankaj Mishra unfolds in R

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.