The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America...' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe. In this titl...
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Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America...' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe. In this title, this speaker of immaculate English tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream - and a Western woman - and how both betrayed him. The internationally bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted portrait of a man caught between conflicting identities and betrayed by the world he has embraced - from the author of Exit WestAdapted as a major film starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland''Masterful . . . A poignant love story and a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending'' Metro''Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America . . . ''so speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. and as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear . . .Challenging, mysterious and thrillingly tense, Mohsin Hamid''s masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today''s globalised, fractured world.
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Books Ltd
Udgave
1
ISBN
9780141029542
Sprog
Engelsk
Originalsprog
dan
Sider
224
Udgivelsesdato
24-04-2008
Format
Indbundet
Varenr.
1610888
EAN nr.
9780141029542
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
14
Bredde (mm)
196
Længde (mm)
129
Vægt (g)
164