My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.

We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy.

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion.

In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.