THE FIRST NOVEL IN TWENTY YEARS BY THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER '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 _____________________ 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 someone is about to pay for
their many transgressions but who exactly will it be? Will it be Arun? Will it be Alia a
female writer and influencer who is piecing together the story of a 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. _____________________ 'Pankaj Mishra returns to fiction after two decades
with a gripping and remarkable novel - his best work yet. It captures the trajectory of our
time through insights and moments that are startling pure and have a strange inevitability'
AMIT CHAUDHURI 'Pankaj Mishra kept us waiting 20 years for a new novel and it becomes apparent
as soon as you pick up Run and Hide that time has honed one of our greatest writing talents.
The narrative draws you in more keenly than any boxset and the prose shimmers with wisdom.
Marvellous' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'A profound extraordinarily written and devastating exploration
of the ways the personal is always already the political. Unforgettable' NEEL MUKHERJEE 'It is
the coup de literature our demented age needs from one of the finest bravest writers we have'
JUNOT DIAZ
