Mohsin Hamid





Mohsin Hamid

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in Lahore, Pakistan
January 01, 1971

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Mohsin Hamid is a Pakistani author best known for his novels Moth Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013).His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, featured on bestseller lists, and adapted for the cinema. His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, and the Paris Review, and his essays in the Guardian, the New York Times, and the New York Review of Books. Born in 1971, he has lived about half his life, on and off, in Lahore. He also spent part of his early childhood in California, attended Princeton and Harvard, and worked for a decade as a management consultant in New York and London, mostly part-time.


Average rating: 3.63 · 19,311 ratings · 2,963 reviews · 8 distinct works · Similar authors
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 15,494 ratings — published 2007 — 53 editions
Moth Smoke
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 2,511 ratings — published 2000 — 16 editions
How to Get Filthy Rich in R...
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 1,101 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions
The Third-Born
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012
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“She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.”
Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.”
Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.”
Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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