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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid (born 1971)

English editions

Written in English

  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    Penguin · United Kingdom · 1 February 2018 · Paperback · 224 pages

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  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    Harcourt · United States · April 2007 · Hardcover · 184 pages

  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    Hamish Hamilton · United Kingdom · 2007

  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    Harcourt · United States · 2008 · Paperback · 191 pages

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As dusk falls in a Lahore café, Changez starts talking to a nervous American he has offered to help, and keeps talking into the night. He tells how he graduated near the top of his class at Princeton, was hired by an elite New York firm and thrived on the work, and how he fell for Erica, a fellow graduate who cannot get over the boyfriend she lost, whose world promised him the social standing his family once had in Lahore. Then came the attacks of September 11. In their wake he felt suspicion settle on him in a city he loved, let his beard grow, watched Erica retreat into her past and began to question where his loyalties lay. All the while, the stranger's unease grows.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Politics, Migration (assigned by AI)
Set in
Pakistan, United States, early 2000s
First published
2007
Author's age
36 when first published
ISBN

9780151013043 (Harcourt, United States)

9780241143650 (Hamish Hamilton, United Kingdom)

9780156034029 (Harcourt, United States)

9780141029542 (Penguin, United Kingdom)

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