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ISBN
9780156034029
Book Title
Reluctant Fundamentalist
Publisher
HarperCollins
Item Length
8 in
Publication Year
2008
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.5 in
Author
Mohsin Hamid
Genre
Fiction, Social Science
Topic
Psychological, Discrimination & Race Relations, Literary, Asian American, Historical
Item Weight
5.7 Oz
Item Width
5.3 in
Number of Pages
208 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156034026
ISBN-13
9780156034029
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63010390

Product Key Features

Book Title
Reluctant Fundamentalist
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Discrimination & Race Relations, Literary, Asian American, Historical
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Fiction, Social Science
Author
Mohsin Hamid
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
5.7 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
PRAISE FORTHE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST "Elegant and chilling . . . his tale [has] anArabian Nightsstyle 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'sThe 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 The Namesake, 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, 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, PRAISE FOR MOTH SMOKE "A rare glimpse into modern-day Pakistan . . . The voices that emerge are sarcastic and sad, a lively lament . . . reminiscent of V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie."-- CHICAGO TRIBUNE "Stunning . . . [Hamid] has created a hip page-turner about the mysterious country that both created the sophisticated Benazir Bhutto and hanged her father."-- LOS ANGELES TIMES, 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, 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, Praise for "Moth Smoke": " [A] brisk, absorbing novel . . . Hamid steers us from start to finish with assurance and care." -- Jhumpa Lahiri, "The New York Times Book Review" " Thoroughly enjoyable and tautly constructed. . . . Moth Smoke is a steamy . . . and often darkly amusing book about sex, drugs, and class warfare in postcolonial Asia." -- The Village Voice " It' s Hamid' s achievement that we remain charmed . . . throughout; the fast-paced, intelligent narration pulls us, despite ourselves, into his spiraling wake." -- "The New Yorker" "From the Hardcover edition.", 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, PRAISE FOR MOTH SMOKE "A rare glimpse into modern-day Pakistan . . . The voices that emerge are sarcastic and sad, a lively lament . . . reminiscent of V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie."-- CHICAGO TRIBUNE "Stunning . . . [Hamid] has created a hip page-turner about the mysterious country that both created the sophisticated Benazir Bhutto and hanged her father."-- LOS ANGELES TIMES --
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
Ninth Grade
Dewey Decimal
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Synopsis
Now a major motion picture Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times bestseller A Washington Pos t and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A New York Times Notable Book "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 "Brief, charming, and quietly furious . . . a resounding success." --V illage Voice 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. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his relationship with Erica shifting. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love., A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York--an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11. At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. He begins to tell the story of a man named Changez, who 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. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his relationship with Erica shifting. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love., 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. His own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love., A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEOVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEThe elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York--an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11.At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. He begins to tell the story of a man named Changez, who 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. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his relationship with Erica shifting. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love., A NATIONAL BESTSELLER At a cafe 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 the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. 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. 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., A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York??--??an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11.
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Copyright Date
2007

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