Readers may recognise the same device was used by Albert Camus in his novel The Fall - and Mohsin Hamid acknowledges the debt to the French novel.Īs night falls, the tension grows between the Changez and the American and a sense of mystery and suspense grows page by page. It's the story of Changez, a high-flying young Pakistani man living in New York at the time of the attacks, whose life is turned around on that day, and who in the aftermath returns to his native Pakistan.Ĭhangez tells his life story to an unnamed stranger, an American man, at a tea house in Lahore. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a sparse, gripping, short novel that tackles the complex issues of Islamic fundamentalism and America's 'war on terror' with sympathy and balance. This edition of Bookclub will be broadcast just two days after the novel has been featured as Radio 4's Book at Bedtime, and it's a timely choice as we approach the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Mohsin Hamid talks to James Naughtie and readers about his bestselling book The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
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