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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 . . .
Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite "valuation" firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his infatuation with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore.
But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.
Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite "valuation" firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his infatuation with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore.
But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.
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- ISBN-10: 0151013047
- ISBN-13: 9780151013043
- Publisher: Harcourt
- Pub date: Apr 03, 2007
- Dimensions: 21 cm x 14 cm x 3 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback
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The title of this book is an eye-grabber. When I saw it on the table at my local bookstore, I knew I was eventually going to read it. When friends of mine raved about this book, and I saw it reduced on Amazon, I finally got it. All-in-all, a pretty so-so story.
On the plus side, The Reluctant ... Continue
The title of this book is an eye-grabber. When I saw it on the table at my local bookstore, I knew I was eventually going to read it. When friends of mine raved about this book, and I saw it reduced on Amazon, I finally got it. All-in-all, a pretty so-so story.
On the plus side, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an easy story to digest; there's a subtle, lightweight element of thriller to it which you see from the beginning, and comes to the fore in the last 30 pages; the characters don't play to stereotypes.
Unfortunately we never really get inside the narrator's head to understand what "fundamentalist" means for the main character. The narrator had every advantage America offers self-starters, yet he inexplicably delights in the 9/11 attacks, and develops hatred towards the country because of the attacks on Afghanistan. The rationale offered for his beliefs are vague and thin. I never see the issue from the narrator's point of view, nor do I recoil at his behavior.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist looked good on the shelf, but didn't deliver.