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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Absolutely terrific, can't believe I haven't read it before except it was published the year my daughter was born so that explains it.
A brilliant look at the feelings of a Pakistani immigrant who has the good life as a corporate analyst aka job destroyer rolling out for him in the USA, and then September 11th 2001 comes around. Fantastic delve into the complex emotions and feelings, mirrored by his relationship with an American woman so wrapped up in her own pain she doesn't see what she's doing to herself or people around her.
It's brutal and real and difficult and the way it's told is superb: the narrator telling his story to an unnamed American in Lahore as night falls. The creeping menace is spectacular.
A brilliant look at the feelings of a Pakistani immigrant who has the good life as a corporate analyst aka job destroyer rolling out for him in the USA, and then September 11th 2001 comes around. Fantastic delve into the complex emotions and feelings, mirrored by his relationship with an American woman so wrapped up in her own pain she doesn't see what she's doing to herself or people around her.
It's brutal and real and difficult and the way it's told is superb: the narrator telling his story to an unnamed American in Lahore as night falls. The creeping menace is spectacular.
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Jan 29, 2024 07:07AM
Oh, Mohsin Hamid is so good! I hope you go on to Exit West, it's also wonderful.
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