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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Author: Mohsin Hamid
Format: Paperback
Commonwealth Writers Prize 2026
Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2026
Freedom of Expression Award 2026
James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2026
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2026
The Australia-Asia Literary Award 2008
South Bank Show Award for Literature 2008
Ambassador Book Award 2008
Asian American Literary Award 2008
Decibel Award 2008
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009
The internationally bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted portrait of a man caught between conflicting identities and betrayed by the world he has embraced - from the author of Exit West
Adapted as a major film starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland
'Masterful . . . A poignant love story and a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending' — Metro
'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 as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear . . .
Challenging, mysterious and thrillingly tense, Mohsin Hamid's masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today's globalised, fractured world.
About the Author
MOHSIN HAMID writes regularly for The New York Times, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books, and is the author of Exit West, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Discontent and its Civilizations. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he has since lived between Lahore, London and New York.
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