Age of Anger (Penguin Orange Spines)

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018

NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017

'The kind of vision the world needs right now...Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking' Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial Times

'This is the most astonishing, convincing, and disturbing book I've read in years' Joe Sacco

'Urgent, profound and extraordinarily timely' John Banville

How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century, before leading us to the present.

He shows that as the world became modern those who were unable to fulfil its promises - freedom, stability and prosperity - were increasingly susceptible to demagogues. The many who came late to this new world or were left, or pushed, behind, reacted in horrifyingly similar ways: intense hatred of invented enemies, attempts to re-create an imaginary golden age, and self-empowerment through spectacular violence. It was from among the ranks of the disaffected that the militants of the 19th century arose - angry young men who became cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic revolutionaries in Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, and anarchist terrorists internationally.

Today, just as then, the wider embrace of mass politics, technology, and the pursuit of wealth and individualism has cast many more millions adrift in a literally demoralized world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity - with the same terrible results

Making startling connections and comparisons, Age of Anger is a book of immense urgency and profound argument. It is a history of our present predicament unlike any other.

LISTA PENTRU PREMIUL ORWELL 2018 NOI CARTI STATISTICE DIN ANUL 2017 „Tipul de viziune de care are nevoie lumea in acest moment ... Pankaj Mishra nu ar trebui sa se opreasca din gandirea„ Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial Times ”Acesta este cel mai uimitor, convingator si carte tulburatoare pe care am citit-o de ani de zile „Joe Sacco” Urgenta, profunda si extraordinar de oportuna John Banville Cum putem explica originile marelui val de ura paranoica care par de neevitat in lumea noastra stransa - de la „tragatorii” americani si ISIS lui Trump, de la o crestere a nationalismului razbunator din intreaga lume la rasism si misoginitate pe social media?