The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid
(Author)
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York--an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11.
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. He begins to tell the story of a man named Changez, who is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his relationship with Erica shifting. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.
Product Details
Price
$15.99
$14.87
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Publish Date
April 14, 2008
Pages
208
Dimensions
5.2 X 7.9 X 0.8 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780156034029
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About the Author
MOHSIN HAMID grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, and attended Princeton and Harvard. His first novel, Moth Smoke, was a Betty Trask Award winner, PEN/ Hemingway Award finalist, and New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His writing has also appeared in Time, The New York Times, and other publications. He lives in London.
Reviews
PRAISE FOR THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
"Elegant and chilling . . . his tale [has] an Arabian Nights-style urgency: the end of the story may mean the death of the teller."--The New York Times Book Review"Slender, smart, and subversive."--Entertainment Weekly"Changez's voice is extraordinary. Cultivated, restrained, yet also barbed and passionate, it evokes the power of butler Stevens in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day."--The Seattle Times "A searing and powerful account of a Pakistani in New York after 9/11."--Mira Nair, director of The Namesake