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Now a major motion pictureShort-listed for the Man Booker PrizeNew York Times bestseller"Extreme times call for extreme reactions, extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary with this novel." - Washington Post"One of those achingly assured novels that makes you happy to be a reader." - Junot Diaz At a caf 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 encounter . . . Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore.
About the Author
Mohsin Hamid is the author of four novels -- Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Exit West -- and a book of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations.His writing has been translated into forty languages, featured on bestseller lists, and adapted for the cinema.Born in Lahore, he has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.
