How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

'This brilliantly structured, deeply felt book is written with the confidence and bravura of a man born to write. 'Even more intriguing, compelling and moving than The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived between Lahore, London and New York. He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as the Guardian, The New York Times, Financial Times, Granta, and the New Yorker. His fiction has been adapted for the cinema, translated into over 30 languages, received numerous awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Moth Smoke. This is all the more remarkable since you've never in your life seen any of these things. Your anguish is the anguish of a boy whose chocolate has been thrown away, whose remote controls are out of batteries, whose scooter is busted, whose new sneakers have been stolen. And to do that it has to find you, huddled, shivering, on the packed earth under your mother's cot one cold, dewy morning. Its objective, as it says on the cover, is to show you how to get filthy rich in rising Asia.

Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a bold new novel for the modern world. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. For there was a moment when anything was possible. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go.

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid