REL 3786 Chapter : The Reluctant Fundamentalist By Mohsin Hamid Kindle Book A Thriller With Intelligence This Book Will Surprise You
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A thriller with intelligence, this book will surprise you. Mohsin hamids first novel, moth smoke, dealt with the confluence of personal and political themes, and his second, the reluctant. Fundamentalist, revisits that territory in the person of changez, a young. Told in a single monologue, the narrative never flags. Changez is by turns naive, sinister, unctuous, mildly threatening, overbearing, insulting, angry, resentful, and sad. He tells his story to a nameless, mysterious american who sits across from him at a lahore cafe. Educated at princeton, employed by a first-rate valuation firm, Changez was living the american dream, earning more money than he thought possible, caught up in the new york social scene and in love with a beautiful, wealthy, damaged girl. The romance is negligible; erica is emotionally unavailable, endlessly grieving the death of her lifelong friend and boyfriend, chris. Changez is in manila on 9/11 and sees the towers come down on tv.
