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Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid is the author of three novels, MOTH SMOKE, THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, and HOW TO GET FILTHY RICH IN RISING ASIA, and a book of essays, DISCONTENT AND ITS CIVILIZATIONS.His writing has been featured on bestseller lists, adapted for the cinema, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize,... show more

Mohsin Hamid is the author of three novels, MOTH SMOKE, THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, and HOW TO GET FILTHY RICH IN RISING ASIA, and a book of essays, DISCONTENT AND ITS CIVILIZATIONS.His writing has been featured on bestseller lists, adapted for the cinema, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, selected as winner or finalist of twenty awards, and translated into more than thirty languages.He was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.
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Birth date: January 01, 1971
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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 6 years ago
Set as a monologue given by Changez to a man he meets in Lahore – a man who may or may not be a spy – The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a book that not only examines a Pakistani man who is in America during 9-11 but also the question of the reliable or unreliable narrator. Changez’s story details h...
N.A. Ratnayake
N.A. Ratnayake rated it 6 years ago
When Saeed and Nadia finally had coffee together in the cafeteria, which happened the following week, after the very next session of their class, Saaed asked her about her conservative and virtually all-concealing black rode. "If you don't pray," he said, lowering his voice, "why do you wear it?" Th...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 7 years ago
“We are all migrants through time.” Having just finished The Reluctant Fundamentalist before reading Exit West (both are due back at the library), I had high expectations for this book. Sadly, I didn't get as much out of this one as I hoped I would. I mean the premise is fascinating, a young cou...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 7 years ago
“If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being l...
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it 7 years ago
I wonder if I might share some personal thoughts and experiences about SF in order to shed light on the way I read "Exit West"? I must have been about 6 or 7 when I was in big trouble at school for refusing to read the books we were given, and disrupting lessons as a diversion. Janet and John's es...
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