How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia uses the conceit of a how-to book for South Asians the book's exemplar is a country boy on the make, always referred to in the second person, as "you." Though there's a danger some will find this structure and form of address forced or artificial, you, the reader, quickly get caught up in Hamid's extremely detailed account of a life of upward social mobility in what we usually regard as a caste- and classbound part of the world.
After all, this story takes the form of a gimmick, and gimmicks usually work against real quality. As I read this novel about the dark and light of success in a world of social instability, I kept asking myself how much I might be inflating the value of Hamid's novel by rating it so highly. Scott Fitzgerald's quintessential American work. But his new novel - his third and, I think, best so far - reminded me of F. Novelist Mohsin Hamid lives in Lahore, Pakistan, quite some distance from the Long Island of Jay Gatsby. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia Author Mohsin Hamid
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