You loved that novel, a first-person narration by a young man with a résumé much like Hamid’s who struggles to reconcile East and West. Then you notice that it is a novel by Mohsin Hamid, a 30-something Pakistani educated at Princeton and Harvard, whose previous work, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. When you encounter a book titled How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia ,you might assume it’s one of those you-too-can-climb-the-ladder-to-glorious-capitalist-success books that sell like bottled water. How wrong you can be about an author’s intentions, about the scope of his or her ambitions.
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