The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Published:
2008-04-08
Categories:
ISBN:
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Meeting:
FBC Recommended R2.002
Chosen by:
Nikki
Pages:
224
Language:
English
File size (e-book):
173 KB

Description:

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is the story of Changez, a young, Princeton-educated Pakistani who goes on to work at a prestigious financial analysis firm in New York City and falls in love with a woman from the upper echelons of New York society.  He seems to have achieved the American dream--until 9/11 devastates the city.  As the woman and city he loves suffer from new wounds and old scars, Changez finds that his place in society had shifted.  With the world seemingly crumbling in front of him, Changez must decide where his true loyalties lie--with his adopted country or his homeland.

Author Details:

Mohsin Hamid is the author of the international bestsellers Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, both finalists for the Man Booker Prize. His first novel, Moth Smoke, won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. His essays, a number of them collected as Discontent and Its Civilizations, have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. He divides his time between Lahore, New York, and London.