Reluctant Fundamentalist: Penguin Street Art

Description

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is the award-winning international bestseller by Mohsin Hamid. Now a major motion picture starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007 '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 her 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 . . .

Awards

Winner of Asian American Literary Awards: Fiction 2008 and The South Bank Show Awards: Literature 2008. Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009 and Australia-Asia Literary Award 2008.