The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Author(s): Mohsin Hamid

Fiction

The internationally bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted portrait of a man caught between conflicting identities and betrayed by the world he has embraced - from the author of Exit West

Adapted as a major film starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland

'Masterful . . . A poignant love story and a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending' Metro

'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 worldy 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 The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today's globalised, fractured world.


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Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2008 and The South Bank Show Awards: Literature 2008. Commended for Australia-Asia Literary Award 2008. Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007 and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 2008 and James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes: Fiction 2008 and International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009.

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"

 

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General Fields

  • : 9780141029542
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin (General UK)
  • : 0.165
  • : February 2018
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 16mm
  • : December 2014
  • : September 2023
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Mohsin Hamid
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : FIC
  • : 224
  • : FA