The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
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 meeting...
The novel is relatively short (184 pages) and since it is written as one extended conversation, it is next to impossible not to read the entire book at one sitting: leaving the story even for a moment would be like leaving a personal encounter - rude. The story is superb, written with elegance, and contains views from outside our American perspective that refreshingly inform us to re-examine our point of view. For those who want a different voice, a different view of the aftermath of 9/11, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is well worth reading. Highly Recommended.
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