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About The World After Gaza<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCourageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding.\u201d \u2014Naomi Klein\u201cThis profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers.\u201d \u2014Hisham Matar

\u201cA triumphant work of empathy in a polarizing conflict.\u201d \u2014Anand Giridharadas
Named a Best Book of the Month by TIME \u2022 <\/em>Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The Guardian<\/em>, Bustle<\/em>, Foreign Policy, <\/em>and Literary Hub<\/em>

From one of our foremost public intellectuals, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza that reframes our understanding of the ongoing conflict, its historical roots, and the fractured global response<\/strong>

The postwar global order was in many ways shaped in response to the Holocaust. That event became the benchmark for atrocity, and, in the Western imagination, the paradigmatic genocide. Its memory orients so much of our thinking, and crucially, forms the basic justification for Israel\u2019s right first to establish itself and then to defend itself. But in many parts of the world, ravaged by other conflicts and experiences of mass slaughter, the Holocaust\u2019s singularity is not always taken for granted, even when its hideous atrocity is. Outside of the West, Pankaj Mishra argues, the dominant story of the twentieth century is that of decolonization.

The World After Gaza<\/em> takes the current war, and the polarized reaction to it, as the starting point for a broad reevaluation of two competing narratives of the last century: the Global North\u2019s triumphant account of victory over totalitarianism and the spread of liberal capitalism, and the Global South\u2019s hopeful vision of racial equality and freedom from colonial rule. At a moment when the world\u2019s balance of power is shifting, and the Global North no longer commands ultimate authority, it is critically important that we understand how and why the two halves of the world are failing to talk to each other.

As old touchstones and landmarks crumble, only a new history with a sharply different emphasis can reorient us to the world and worldviews now emerging into the light. In this concise, powerful, and pointed treatise, Mishra reckons with the fundamental questions posed by our present crisis \u2014 about whether some lives matter more than others, how identity is constructed, and what the role of the nation-state ought to be. The World After Gaza<\/em> is an indispensable moral guide to our past, present, and future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pankaj Mishra<\/strong> is the author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present<\/em>, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia,<\/em> and several other books of nonfiction and fiction. Mishra won the 2024 Weston International Award, as well as the 2014 Windham\u2013Campbell Prize for nonfiction. He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books<\/em>, The Guardian<\/em>, and The London Review of Books<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Praise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStimulating and brilliantly researched . . . no incendiary polemic, but rather a sober and extensively documented treatise on the discursive history that has given rise to the current situation.\u201d \u2014The Irish Times<\/em><\/strong>

\u201cMishra\u2019s book is a triumphant work of empathy in a polarizing conflict. It gives voice and extends sympathy and probes the innermost fears and aspirations of both parties in the conflict \u2014 and shows how fine the line is between humanity and its opposite.\u201d \u2014Anand Giridharadas, The.Ink<\/em><\/strong>

\u201cThe World After Gaza<\/em> is a book of magnitude and grace. Mishra\u2019s skills as a novelist enable him to provide vivid portraits of men and women struggling (and sometimes failing) to rail against the injustices of their eras. In doing so, we find not only a lament for what has gone wrong, a warning against the complicity that convenience can give rise to and an elegy for the world order that we are at risk of losing, but also a guide as to what we can be, each of us, individually.\u201d \u2014Markaz Review<\/em><\/strong>

\u201cMishra, who has employed his crystalline prose in novels and nonfiction alike, methodically unpacks the \u2018extensive moral breakdown\u2019 that preceded what he describes as \u2018the blithe slaughter of innocents in Gaza.\u2019 . . . At heart, this is an exhaustively sourced plea for historical literacy that opens up what Mishra calls \u2018a broader vista of human fraternity and solidarity\u2019 and recognizes that across the globe, people victimized by \u2018historical mass crimes of genocide, slavery and racist imperialism\u2019 wonder why \u2018their own holocausts . . . have not been much regarded in history.\u2019 . . . A clear-eyed look at the Holocaust as justification for Israel\u2019s wars.\u201d \u2014Kirkus<\/em><\/strong>

\u201cIn 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.\u201d \u2014Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years\u2019 War on Palestine<\/em><\/strong>

\u201cGuided by a determination to find an exit from the loop of endlessly repeating atrocities, Mishra leads readers on a search for meaning in modern history\u2019s most depraved episodes. This is a rare text: courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding.\u201d \u2014Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger<\/em><\/strong>

\u201cThis 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 center of this urgent 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.\u201d \u2014Hisham Matar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return<\/em> and My Friends

<\/em><\/strong>\u201cMishra\u2019s latest undertakes the difficult but important task of reconciling the contradictory stories of the Global North and the Global South. While the former has squandered the last of its alleged moral authority in support of neoliberal empire the latter urgently seeks liberation from the deadly and ongoing aftershocks of colonialism. Essential reading.\u201d \u2014Literary Hub<\/em><\/strong>

\u201cPankaj 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 civilization 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.\u201d \u2014Samuel Moyn, author of Liberalism Against Itself<\/em> and Humane<\/em><\/strong>

\u201cA brilliant book, as thoughtful, scholarly and subtle as it is brave and original, The World After Gaza<\/em> does what great writing is meant to do: to remind us of what it is to be human, to help us feel another\u2019s pain, to reach out and make connections across the trenches of race, color, and religion.\u201d\u2014William Dalrymple, author of The Golden Road<\/em><\/strong>

\u201cBoth a timeless and timely book, reading The World After Gaza<\/em> feels like engaging in an ongoing conversation about the meaning of the Holocaust and colonialism with a good attentive friend.\u201d \u2014Eyal Weizman, author of Forensic Architecture<\/em><\/strong>

\u201cAn astute, humane, and necessary intervention, opening a path to the altered consciousness which has to be a consequence of Israel\u2019s war on Gaza.\u201d \u2014Ahdaf Soueif, author of Cairo and The Map of Love<\/em><\/strong>

\u201cWith this utterly essential book, Pankaj Mishra has made a powerful contribution to the moral history of the world, bringing proportion and insight to a subject that is routinely lacking in both . . . The devastation of Gaza cannot be understood as a retaliatory act, but as a brutal extension of Israel\u2019s renewed commitment to clearing lands that are not their own. Mishra\u2019s book shows great understanding of the historical prejudice and violence that Jews themselves have suffered, and offers new clarity about how that trauma might have formed the current Israeli rhetoric . . . I can only say that fair-minded people and readers everywhere have a friend in this book, which sees without blinkers and speaks without fear. If books have a role today in the elucidation of justice, then I believe The World After Gaza<\/em> will prove to be as crucial to our own times as James Baldwin\u2019s The Fire Next Time<\/em> was to his.\u201d \u2014Andrew O\u2019Hagan, author of Caledonian Road

<\/em><\/strong>\u201cPankaj Mishra remembers the future. The World After Gaza<\/em>, with its elegant outrage and eloquent ache, will be the reference for those who judge our times tomorrow. Thanks to Mishra\u2019s all-too-human work, the next generation will know we were not all in vain.\u201d \u2014Ece Temelkuran

<\/strong>\u201cMishra brings his humanism, moral clarity and deep, cosmopolitan erudition to the question of how survivors of a genocide built a society that is committing a genocide broadcast live on our smartphones. A towering intellectual achievement.\u201d \u2014Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood<\/em> and Brothers of the Gun<\/em> (with Marwan Hisham)

<\/strong>\u201cA book of passion, fury, and clarity. Mishra is one of the most important voices of our generation.\u201d \u2014Peter Frankopan

<\/strong>\u201cWe all owe Pankaj Mishra a debt for crafting eloquent, urgent, and undeniable words from the horrors we are struggling to witness.\u201d \u2014Afua Hirsch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/780437\/the-world-after-gaza-by-pankaj-mishra<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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