Brief biography of mohsin hamid was born in Pakistan, but he spent much of his

Nadia and Saeed buy water, food, a blanket, a backpack, a tent,
and local service for their cellphones. After doing this, they setup the new tent on the fringe of the camp, slightly elevated on the beach’s craggy hill, where it isn’t too windy or too rocky.”
While setting up, Nadia feels like she’s playing house while
Saeed feels like he is a bad son Pausing in her preparations,
Nadia suddenly stoops below a bush and tells Saeed to the same. When he does, she kisses him under the open sky.”
Saeed whips his face away in frustration but then frantically apologies and puts his cheek to Nadia’s. And though she tries to relax with their faces pressed together, Nadia is taken aback by
Saeed’s bitterness since she’s never seen him act like this and thinks that a bitter Saeed would not be Saeed at all.”
Nadia and Saeed’s relationship suffers in this scene because of the
stressors related to migration. Constantly having to face the threat
of danger and the various uncertainties that come along with
having escaped their country, Saeed shows a bitterness toward
Nadia, clearly misdirecting his anxieties by superimposing them on
their relationship. Of course, part of this is due to the fact that
Nadia kisses him under the open sky something they were never
able to do in their home country because intimacy of any kind was
prohibited in public by the radical militants. In doing so, she
transgresses against the rules that inadvertently shaped her
relationship with Saeed. As a result, Saeed feels as if his lover is
actually acting against the very terms of their own bond, so he
responds bitterly. In turn, readers come to understand how
significantly Saeed and Nadia’s romantic connection has been
influenced not only by the militant radicals in their own country, but
by the process of having escaped, too.
Meanwhile, a young woman comes home from work in Vienna.
Apparently, militants from Saeed and Nadia’s country entered the city the previous week, shooting Austrians to provoke a reaction against migrants from their own part of the world.”
Unfortunately, they’ve succeeded, because angry Austrians are planning to attack a group of migrants living near the zoo.
Fortunately, another group is intending to form a human cordon to protect them Wanting to help, the young woman boards a train to the zoo while wearing a migration compassion badge but she finds herself trapped in a car with the xenophobic mob. These white faces look upon her, shouting and pushing until she feels a basic, animal fear and jumps off at the next stop. Despite this harrowing experience, though,
she resolves to continue her trek to the zoo, walking there as the sun falls in the sky.
Yet another vignette showing the far-flung influence of global
migration, the young woman’s story is an example of the ways in
which fear motivates xenophobic mobs to advocate for borders and
division. The militants from Saeed and Nadia’s country seem to
understand how potent fear is, knowing they can use it to incite
bigotry and, thus, discourage people from their own country from
escaping to other places. However, people like the young woman in
Vienna are capable of overcoming the threat of violence because

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