The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an American stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting

'Mohsin Hamid'sexceptionallytautandgrippingnovelgentlyexplores thefaultlinesbetweenthe AmericanWestandthelslamic East. Hamid seemstohavepulledoffthenearimpossible. This isameditativenovel writteninanintrospectivemanner butthisisalsodeeplysuspenseful work, thesenseofanticipationheightenedbyHamid's wonderfuluse ofrestraint-Mukund Padmanabhanin The Hindu

'Abrilliant book With spooky restraint and masterful control, Hamid unpicks the underpinnings of the most recent episodes of distrust between East and West. But his book does not merely excel in capturing a developing bitterness. The narrative is balanced by a love a powerful as the sinister forces gathering, even when it recedes into a phantom of hope. It is this balanced, and the constant negotiation of the political with the personal, that creates a nuanced and complex portrait of a reluctant fundamentalist - Kiran Desai, author of The Inhentance of Loss

A quietly told, cleverly constructed fable of infatuation and disenchantment with America. astute cultural observation at which hamid excels. An intelligent, highly engaging piece oflist