Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a bold new novel for the modern world This book is a self-help book Its objective as it says on the cover is to show you how to get filthy rich in rising Asia & to do that it has to find you huddled shivering on the packed earth under your mother's cot one cold dewy morning 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 This is all the more remarkable since you've never in your life seen any of these things ' Even more intriguing compelling & moving than The Reluctant Fundamentalist A marvellous book' Philip Pullman ' This brilliantly structured deeply felt book is written with the confidence & bravura of a man born to write Hamid is at the peak of his considerable powers here & delivers a tightly paced preternaturally wise book about a thoroughly likable thoroughly troubled striver in the messiest most chaotic ring of global economy Completely unforgettable' Dave Eggers ' Mohsin Hamid is one of the best writers in the world period Only a master could have written this propulsive tale of a striver living on the knife's edge a noir Horatio Alger story for our frenetic violent times' Ben Fountain Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist & Moth Smoke His fiction has been adapted for the cinema translated into over 30 languages received numerous awards & been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize He has contributed essays & short stories to publications such as the Guardian The New York Times Financial Times Granta & the New Yorker Born & mostly raised in Lahore he spent part of his childhood in California studied at Princeton University & Harvard Law School & has since lived between Lahore London & New York