![]() Mesmerized by the world of the rich and successful, and driven by a desire to reclaim his family’s lost glory, he landed a job at fictitious valuation firm Underwood Samson in Manhattan. Slowly, the story unfolds: Changez, hailing from a once-aristocratic Pakistani family, got his undergraduate degree from Princeton. Changez begins telling his story, with intermittent pauses for remarks about curious passerbys and the Pakistani food brought to their table. ![]() “Come, tell me, what were you looking for?” he asks a mysterious and nameless American, inviting him to sit down for tea. The reader is introduced to narrator Changez Khan at a teahouse in Lahore, Pakistan. Despite its neat format, it manages to take on grand themes while keeping the plot very tight. Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid’s second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, packs a punch. ![]()
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