The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid From the simple life of

From the simple life of rural Africa

From the author of The Perfect Find

or the mermaids

BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' Guardian'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures

as multifaceted as its author

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid From the simple life ofAt a caf 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 encounterChangez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at