The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid as multifaceted as its author

as multifaceted as its author

continues to amaze and bedevil

BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' Guardian'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures

From the author of The Perfect Find

or the mermaids

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid as multifaceted as its authorAt a caf 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 encounterChangez 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