The Reluctant Fundamentalist
by:
Mohsin Hamid (author)
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting . . .Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up...
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At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting . . .Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite "valuation" firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his infatuation 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 budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780151013043 (0151013047)
Publish date: April 3rd 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 200
Edition language: English
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...
W pakistańskim mieście Lahore, stolicy prowincji Pendżab, dzieje się akcja książki autorstwa Moshina Hamida. "Uznany za fundamentalistę" znalazła się w finale nagrody Brookera za rok 2007.W owym mieście, w kawiarni, spotykamy głównego bohatera Changeza, który opowiada przypadkowo spotkanemu Amerykan...
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The titular fundamentalist in this novel is not only reluctant, but also less than convincing. The back cover of my copy described that Changez, the Pakistani main character, "embraced the Western dream — and a Western woman — and... both betrayed him". But I had to scan through the book again to as...
21/10 - I really enjoyed this book. It was less than 200 pages but there was a surprising amount of plot in those pages. I enjoyed the way it was written with the narrator speaking to a third party that we only get a brief description of and never hear from directly. We guess at what he's saying fro...
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