Now a major motion picture Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize New York Times bestseller
"Extreme times call for extreme reactions, extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary with this novel." --Washington Post "One of those achingly assured novels that makes you happy to be a reader." --Junot Diaz At a cafe table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter . . . Changez is living an immigrant's dream of...
Now a major motion picture Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize New York Times bestseller
'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. In this title, this speaker of immaculate English tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream - and a Western woman - and how both betrayed him.
'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...
Daru, a young Pakistani banker, loses his job and begins a downward spiral into drug dealing and an affair with Mumtaz, the wife of his childhood friend and rival. Broken and desperate, he becomes involved in a heist that leaves him on trial for murder.
Daru, a young Pakistani banker, loses his job and begins a downward spiral into drug dealing and an affair with Mumtaz, the wife of his childhood frie...
This is the tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon. 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.
This is the tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he...
