Books by Mohsin Hamid

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 *A Barack Obama top ten book of 2017*WINNER of the LA Times Prize for Fiction * WINNER of the Aspen Words Literary Prize'Astonishing' Zadie Smith * 'Stunning' Spectator * 'Extraordinary' TLSAn extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant FundamentalistAll over the world, doors are appearing.They lead to other cities, other countries, other lives. And in a city gripped by war, Nadia and Saeed are newly in love.Hardly more than strangers, desperate to survive, they open a door and step through.But the doors only go one way. Once you leave, there is no going back.'One of the year's most significant literary works' The New York Times 'A masterpiece' Michael Chabon'Addictively readable and brilliantly written. Fantastic' Mail on SundayNominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionShortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Awards for Best NovelLonglisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018 and finalist for the Neustadt Prize 2018

The Man Booker-shortlisted, thrillingly provocative international bestseller - adapted to a major motion picture starring Kiefer Sutherland - from the author of Exit West'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.

Moth Smoke is the first novel by Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist'You know you're in trouble when you can't meet a woman's eye, particularly if the woman happens to be your best friend's wife.'In Lahore, Daru Shezad is a junior banker with a hashish habit. When his old friend Ozi moves back to Pakistan, Daru wants to be happy for him. Ozi has everything: a beautiful wife and child, an expensive foreign education - and a corrupt father who bankrolls his lavish lifestyle.As jealousy sets in, Daru's life slowly unravels. He loses his job. Starts lacing his joints with heroin. Becomes involved with a criminally-minded rickshaw driver. And falls in love with Ozi's lonely wife.But how low can Daru sink? Is he guilty of the crime he finds himself on trial for?'A vivid portrait of contemporary young Pakistani life, where frustration and insecurity feed not only the snobbery, decadence and aspirations of the rich, but also the resentment of the poor'The Times'Fast-paced, intelligent . . . pulls us, despite ourselves, into its spiralling wake'New Yorker'A subtly audacious . . .prodigious descendant of hard-boiled lit and film noir. A steamy and often darkly amusing book about sex, drugs, and class warfare in postcolonial Asia' Village Voice'Stunning, a hip page-turner' Los Angeles Times'Sharply observed, powerful, evocative' Financial Times'A novel of remarkable wit, poise, profundity, and strangeness. A treat'EsquireMohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages, received numerous awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as the Guardian, The New York Times, Financial Times, Granta, and Paris Review. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived between Lahore, London, and New York.

Discontent and its Civilizations is the essential first collection of non fiction from Mohsin Hamid. Discontent and its Civilizations collects the best of Mohsin Hamid's writing on subjects as diverse and wide-ranging as Pakistan; fatherhood; the death of Osama Bin Laden and the writing of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.Unified by the author's humane, clear-headed and witty voice, the book makes a compelling case for recognizing our common humanity while relishing our diversity - both as readers and citizens; for resisting the artificial mono-identities of religion or nationality or race; and for always judging a country or nation by how it treats its minorities, as 'Each individual human being is, after all, a minority of one'.Mohsin Hamid writes regularly for The New York Times, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books, and is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he has since lived between Lahore, London and New York.'Mohsin Hamid is a master critic of the modern global condition, using humanization, wit, parody and other devices to examine how the fast pace of social and economic change has affected the individual' Foreign Policy'The new voice of a generation. A writer at the top of his game' Metro'One of the most talented writers of his generation' Daily TelegraphMohsin Hamid writes regularly for The New York Times, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books, and is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he has since lived between Lahore, London and New York.

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is Mohsin Hamid's spectacular, thought-provoking novel of modern Asia In this keenly-awaited follow-up to his bestselling The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid confirms his place as a radically inventive story-teller with his finger on the world's pulse.The astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by youths all over 'rising Asia'. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on the most fluid and increasingly scarce of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises alongside his, their paths crossing and re-crossing in a love affair sparked and snuffed out again by the forces that careen their fates along.The hero of the story could be any one of us, hungry for a different life. And ours too could be the fate that awaits him . . .Fast-paced, vivid and emotionally absorbing, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change.Praise for How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: 'Even more intriguing, compelling and moving than The Reluctant Fundamentalist. A marvellous book' Philip Pullman 'This brilliantly structured, deeply felt book is written with the confidence and bravura of a man born to write. Hamid is at the peak of his considerable powers here, and delivers a tightly paced, preternaturally wise book about a thoroughly likable, thoroughly troubled striver in the messiest, most chaotic ring of global economy. Completely unforgettable' Dave Eggers 'Mohsin Hamid is one of the best writers in the world, period. Only a master could have written this propulsive tale of a striver living on the knife's edge, a noir Horatio Alger story for our frenetic, violent times' Ben Fountain'Written in the most compelling second person since Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, with which it also shares a sharp take on our frenetic, urban lives, Hamid's novel proves that the most compelling fiction today is coming from South Asia' Daily BeastMohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Moth Smoke. His fiction has been adapted for the cinema, translated into over 30 languages, received numerous awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as the Guardian, The New York Times, Financial Times, Granta, and the New Yorker. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived between Lahore, London and New York.

Den modvillige fundamentalist er en beretning om en ung succesrig og veluddannet pakistaner, der mister sig selv og sit nye hjem, New York, som følge af 11. september.

"Sådan bliver du stinkende rig i det nye Asien" er både en medrivende fortælling om kærlighed og kampen for at lykkes og en rå oprørende skildring af et kynisk samfund, der bygger på den stærkes ret.En dreng fødes i en landsby i et land, som kunne være Pakistan. At blive i landsbyen indebærer et hårdt og fattigt liv med en voldsom, alt for tidlig, afslutning. Men vores hovedperson har en anden skæbne foran sig. En skæbne, der drives frem af fortælleren: At blive stinkende rig er muligt, ja, men det kræver opofrelse.  Drengen gør alting rigtig. Han flytter til storbyen, uddanner sig, skaffer sig beskyttelse til gengæld for loyalitet. Han arbejder hårdt – konstant. Han opbygger et forretningsimperium ved at adlyde fortællerens råd: undgå idealister, vær forberedt på at bruge vold, og, vigtigst af alt, bliv aldrig forelsket.For dette er også en historie om kærlighed, om en dreng og en pige, som gennem hele deres liv har en stærk længsel efter hinanden, og hvis veje krydses gang på gang. De er ofre for en orden, som kræver at de accepterer at alt er til salg. Mandens ægteskab bliver en katastrofe, den smukke pige lever alene. Til den dag alting styrter sammen."Sådan bliver du stinkende rig i det nye Asien” er en kærlighedshistorie forklædt som selvhjælpsguide. En dannelsesroman om en stræber, hvis hele tilværelse balancerer på en knivsæg, fra han som fattig, syg og sultende dreng fra landet ender som succesrig og styrtende rig ’tycoon’ – i et land som kunne være Pakistan.  ”En globaliseret udgave af Den store Gatsby … Mohsin Hamids roman er faktisk så god.” - NPR