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When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.
Mohsin Hamid
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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
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Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.
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