{"product_id":"the-world-after-gaza-a-history-9798217058891","title":"The World After Gaza: A History","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding.\" --Naomi Klein\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers.\" --Hisham Matar \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A triumphant work of empathy in a polarizing conflict.\" --Anand Giridharadas\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Month by \u003ci\u003eTIME - \u003c\/i\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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's 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's 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World After Gaza\u003c\/i\u003e 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's triumphant account of victory over totalitarianism and the spread of liberal capitalism, and the Global South's hopeful vision of racial equality and freedom from colonial rule. At a moment when the world's 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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 -- about whether some lives matter more than others, how identity is constructed, and what the role of the nation-state ought to be. \u003ci\u003eThe World After Gaza\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable moral guide to our past, present, and future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16153925\"\u003ePankaj Mishra\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798217058891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL010000\"\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Theory | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS019000\"\u003eMiddle East | Israel \u0026amp; Palestine\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS043000\"\u003eModern | 20th Century | Holocaust\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePankaj Mishra\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eAge of Anger: A History of the Present\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrom the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, \u003c\/i\u003e and several other books of nonfiction and fiction. Mishra won the 2024 Weston International Award, as well as the 2014 Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction. He writes regularly for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48112612344045,"sku":"9798217058891","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_1c8709bc-3b88-4057-a794-d5e2904e5eb7.jpg?v=1752079201","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-world-after-gaza-a-history-9798217058891","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}