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“It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles, until it does.”
“Nadia looked him in the eye. ‘You don’t say your evening prayers?’ she asked. Saeed conjured up his most endearing grin. ‘Not always. Sadly.’”
“He was aware that alone a person is almost nothing.”
This refers to a minor character in the book: a thief, or perhaps simply a refugee, hiding out in the closet of an upper-class home. However, the quote reflects interestingly on the book as a whole, which is full of refugees and characters who have lost their usual contexts of home, work, and family. Rather than this loss making them “nothing,” it more often causes them to form a new community of disenfranchised people.
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By Mohsin Hamid