The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid’s short novel, told as a single monologue by a young Pakistani to an American stranger in a Lahore café. Changez recalls his rise at a New York valuation firm and the unravelling of his American life after 9/11. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Ahmede Hussain
During interviews, Hamid has refused to expand on his novel any further. In a way, I think that’s good. He leaves the issues surrounding the concept of “reluctant fundamentalism” as an open-ended debate, and it’s a debate that demands a certain type of polemic.
Interview · May 2012
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