The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

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Penguin
01 February 2018

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller that was also shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007. Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland.

'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America...'

So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For he is more worldlier than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream - and a Western woman - and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear...

Challenging, mysterious and thrillingly tense, Mohsin Hamid's masterly novel is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today's globalised, fractured world. A multi-layered and thoroughly gripping book, which works as a poignant love story, a powerful dissection of how US imperialist machinations have turned so many people against the world's superpower - and as a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending.

Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages, received numerous awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as The Guardian, The New York Times, The Financial Times, Granta and The Paris Review. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived between Lahore, London, and New York.

By: Mohsin Hamid
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9780141029542
ISBN 10: 0141029544
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 February 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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Mohsin Hamid grew up in Lahore, attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School and worked for several years as a management consultant in New York. His first novel, Moth Smoke, was published in ten languages, won a Betty Trask award, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Mohsin Hamid currently lives, works and writes in London.

Reviews for The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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 T he Namesake

Short-listed for Decibel Award 2008 (UK)
Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009 (UK)
Shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 2008.
Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007.
Winner of Ambassador Book Award 2008 (UK)
Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2008
Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2008.
Winner of Asian American Literary Awards: Fiction 2008
Winner of Asian American Literary Awards: Fiction 2008.
Winner of English-Speaking Union of the United States Ambassador Book Awards: Fiction Category 2008.