The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A Man Booker Prize-Shortlisted Literary Novel of Love, Identity, and the American Dream

Hamid, Mohsin

ISBN 10: 0156034026 / ISBN 13: 9780156034029

Edité par Harper Perennial, 2008

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Synopsis :

Now a major motion picture

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize

A New York Times bestseller

A Washington Post 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.”—Village Voice 

At a café 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.

 

À propos de l'auteur:

MOHSIN HAMID grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, and attended Princeton and Harvard. His first novel, Moth Smoke , was a Betty Trask Award winner, PEN/ Hemingway Award finalist, and New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His writing has also appeared in Time, The New York Times, and other publications. He lives in London.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A Man Booker ...
Éditeur : Harper Perennial
Date d'édition : 2008
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : very_good