The World After Gaza

A book of passion, fury and clarity. Mishra is one of the most important voices of our generation – Peter FrankopanA seething and erudite indictment of the west’s role in the creation of Israel and everything that has flowed from it * Guardian *This is a rare text: courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding – Naomi KleinAs scholarly and subtle as it is brave and original, it’s by a long way the saddest and most thought-provoking book I have read this year * Spectator, Books of the Year *Stimulating and brilliantly researched * Irish Times *In this urgent book, Mishra grapples with the inexplicable spectacle of stone-faced Western elites ignoring, and indeed justifying, the slaughter and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Mishra reflects on the supposedly universal consensus that emerged from the Holocaust, as well as his own early sympathies for Israel, as he expounds on the terrible toll of this passivity in the face of atrocity – Rashid KhalidiThis profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers. His outrage is hard to ignore. But at the centre of this book is a humane inquiry into what suffering can make us do, and he leaves us with the troubling question of what world will we find after Gaza – Hisham MatarAn impassioned account … Richly researched … Riveting * The Tablet *If books have a role today in the elucidation of justice, then I believe The World after Gaza will prove to be as crucial to our own times as James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time was to his – Andrew O’HaganA brilliant book, as thoughtful, scholarly and subtle as it is brave and original, The World After Gaza does what great writing is meant to do: to remind us of what it is to be human, to help us feel another’s pain, to reach out and make connections across the trenches of race, colour and religion – William DalrympleWe all owe Pankaj Mishra a debt for crafting eloquent, urgent and undeniable words from the horrors we are struggling to witness – Afua HirschAn astute, humane and necessary intervention, opening a path to the altered consciousness which has to be a consequence of Israel’s war on Gaza – Ahdaf SouiefPankaj Mishra remembers the future. The World After Gaza, with its elegant outrage and eloquent ache, will be the reference for those who judge our times tomorrow. Thanks to Mishra’s all-too-human work, the next generation will know we were not all in vain – Ece TemelkuranBoth a timeless and timely book, reading The World After Gaza feels like engaging in an ongoing conversation about the meaning of the Holocaust and colonialism with a good attentive friend’ – Eyal Weizman, Director, Forensic ArchitecturePankaj Mishra is our globally leading public intellectual and his coruscating and scintillating meditation on the ethical purchase of Holocaust memory as the Gaza war goes on is one of the indispensable documents of civilisation in a barbaric time. With his alert conscience, impeccable learning and meditative writing, Mishra chronicles how the very attempt to register the crimes of the past in a world of continuing hierarchy can transform into an alibi for the disasters of the present – Samuel MoynWith clarity and even a dose of self-reflection, the always brilliant Pankaj Mishra sifts through the many implications of the horrid war on Gaza – Joe SaccoAn insightful and persuasive analysis * Times Literary Supplement *[Mishra’s] insistence that what’s happening in the Middle East is not remote and not something about which we can figure out the whys and wherefores at a later date that Mishra makes his most powerful arguments… this is brave writing that demands to be read * ArtReview *

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.