RaveWorld Literature TodayHamid’s talent to tell a story efficiently shines in The Last White Man. With most of the paragraphs built of only one sentence, the novel tells the story in phrases, each one containing a full story of its own. One cannot blink when reading this novel; otherwise, one may miss an important detail of the backstory or an intimation of what is to come ... breathless in its pace and leaves the reader satisfied when finished ... continues Hamid’s tradition of using imagination to create new spaces for humanity to grapple with such issues as extremism, migration, and now, overtly, race.
