Author(s): Pankaj Mishra

Novel | India

A spectacular, illuminating work of fiction' Jennifer Egan

'Terrific . . . Elegantly written, incisively observed, and deeply satisfying to read' Kamila Shamsie

'A book that demands to be read and rewards reading' Mohsin Hamid
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Arun knows there is only way out of this small railway town. He is about to enrol in the prestigious Indian Institute of technology, determined to make something of himself. But once there, he meets two friends who are prepared to go to unimaginable lengths to succeed.

In just a few years, Arun's friends become the success stories of their generation. In private planes and expensive cars, from New York to Tuscany, they play out their Gatsby-style fantasies.

In reality, these men are about to pay for their transgressions, but who exactly will pay the price? Will it be Arun? Will it be Alia, a female writer and influencer, who is piecing together the story of a big global financial scandal?
Run and Hide is a novel about a group of friends in an age of upheaval and breakdown; it is a story for our times.

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 *

Author Biography: 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.