The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Registered by morsecode of Woonsocket, Rhode Island USA on 2/20/2008
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
I received this book from Antheras as part of one of the holiday exchanges organized on BookObsessed.
The focus of this short novel is a conversation between a bearded Pakistani man and an American man he has just met, which takes place during the course of one evening in a Lahore café. In his mesmerizing monologue, Changez describes his life: education at Princeton, job at a high-powered finance firm in New York, the love of his life, and what brought him back to Pakistan.
A unique post-9/11 novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a page-turner without resorting to plot devices. Well-written and thought-provoking, the novel is more subtle than its title suggests, dealing less with the political, religious, and sociological reasons behind Islamic fundamentalism than with the disillusionment of youth and issues of cultural identity.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Mohsin Hamid grew up in Lahore, Pakistan. His first novel, Moth Smoke, was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
The focus of this short novel is a conversation between a bearded Pakistani man and an American man he has just met, which takes place during the course of one evening in a Lahore café. In his mesmerizing monologue, Changez describes his life: education at Princeton, job at a high-powered finance firm in New York, the love of his life, and what brought him back to Pakistan.
A unique post-9/11 novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a page-turner without resorting to plot devices. Well-written and thought-provoking, the novel is more subtle than its title suggests, dealing less with the political, religious, and sociological reasons behind Islamic fundamentalism than with the disillusionment of youth and issues of cultural identity.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Mohsin Hamid grew up in Lahore, Pakistan. His first novel, Moth Smoke, was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
I'm loaning this book to one of my librarian colleagues. I hope she enjoys it.
My colleague sent the book back to me (through campus mail) with the following note -
"Thank you for sharing this! I thought LONG and HARD after finishing it."
Now I'm sending it along to the lovely geishabird as an RABCK. I hope that she enjoys it.
"Thank you for sharing this! I thought LONG and HARD after finishing it."
Now I'm sending it along to the lovely geishabird as an RABCK. I hope that she enjoys it.
Well, aren't you sweet. What a nice surprise! Thank you so much; I've heard so many great things about this book.
Very fine little book - tense, sad, honest. I'm finding it interesting to compare post-September 11 novels; the range of narrative material is really eye-opening. So many different stories, so many vantage points. Changez's story is haunting and memorable. Thanks very much for sharing this with me.
Found out a couple of interesting things about this book from an interview with the author on Amazon: first, that "Changez" is the Urdu form of "Genghis", and second, that Mohsin Hamid had actually completed a first draft of the novel before September 11 - indicating so clearly just how indivisible are art and history.
Found out a couple of interesting things about this book from an interview with the author on Amazon: first, that "Changez" is the Urdu form of "Genghis", and second, that Mohsin Hamid had actually completed a first draft of the novel before September 11 - indicating so clearly just how indivisible are art and history.
Journal Entry 6 by geishabird at Yellow Griffin pub in Bloor West Village in Toronto, Ontario Canada on Friday, September 12, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (9/13/2008 UTC) at Yellow Griffin pub in Bloor West Village in Toronto, Ontario Canada
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Bringing it to the social.
Bringing it to the social.
