The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid Reviews

Skillfully-composed, clever in execution - and only occasionally too much so for its own good - Mousin Hamed's The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a crafty novella that examines the east-west rift that has only deepened over the past decade. At one point in proceedings, our protagonist Changez is told of the Janissaries; Christian children taken by ...  Read the complete review

'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' impressed me on a number of different levels. It is a sparse, short book which reflects on culture, terrorism, xenophobia, capitalism and mental illness. This may sound like an intimidating list, but the way that Mohsin Hamid subtly weaves these issues into the narrative makes the story one that is very easy to read ...  Read the complete review

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel by Mohsin Hamid. The novel is written in an unusual way, where a Pakistani man is talking to an American man in a cafe. Throughout the book we do not hear the American man speak, as the whole book is the main character talking. We do however hear his reaction through Changez, as he gradually gets more ...  Read the complete review

Well here's a book my boss leant me, with the warning that it was an amazing piece of literature and he was looking forward to discussing it with me when I had finished it; you can imagine it would bode me well to feel the same, and so I set aside a fair amount of time to plough through it. The story is written by Changez, and is a ...  Read the complete review

At a café in an old part of Lahore, a Pakistani man treats a mysterious and a rather nervous American to a story of his encounter - and disillusionment - with the American Dream. A scion of a old family of Pakistani professionals, who still remember the old but now faded glories, he goes to Princeton on a special scholarship and on graduation is ...  Read the complete review