Providing a rare glimpse into the complexities of the Pakistani class system, the book was called 'a brisk, absorbing novel' ( New York Times Book Review), 'a hip page-turner' ( Los Angeles Times), and 'a first novel of remarkable wit, poise, profundity, and strangeness' ( Esquire). Hamid made his literary debut in 2000 with Moth Smoke, a noir-inflected story about a young banker living on the fringes of Lahore society who plummets into an underworld of drugs and crime when he is fired from his job.

He worked for a while as a management consultant in New York, then moved to London, where he continues to work and write. to complete his own education, Hamid graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. Awards-Betty Trask Award South Bank Show AwardĪlthough he was born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan, award-winning novelist Mohsin Hamid spent part of his childhood in California while his father attended grad school at Stanford.

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Mohsin Hamid's third novel, confirms that this radically inventive storyteller is among the most important of today's international writers. Stealing its shape from the self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over “rising Asia,” the novel is genre-bending and playful but also reflective and profound in its portrayal of the thirst for ambition and love in a time of shattering economic and social upheaval. From the best-selling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia tells the story of an anonymous man's journey from impoverished rural boy to tycoon in an unnamed contemporary city in “rising Asia,” and of his pursuit of the nameless “pretty girl” whose path continually crosses but never quite converges with his.

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