How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is Mohsin Hamid's spectacular thought-provoking novel of modern Asia. In this keenly-awaited follow-up to his bestselling The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid confirms his place as a radically inventive story-teller with his finger on the world's pulse. The astonishing & riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by youths all over 'rising Asia'. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on the most fluid & increasingly scarce of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else on the pretty girl whose star rises alongside his their paths crossing & re-crossing in a love affair sparked & snuffed out again by the forces that careen their fates along. The hero of the story could be any one of us hungry for a different life. & ours too could be the fate that awaits him... Fast-paced vivid & emotionally absorbing How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change. Praise for How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: 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). " Written in the most compelling second person since Jay Mc Inerney's Bright Lights Big City with which it also shares a sharp take on our frenetic urban lives Hamid's novel proves that the most compelling fiction today is coming from South Asia". (Daily Beast). 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." ...

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 mothers cot one cold dewy morning... The astonishing & riveting tale of a mans journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by youths all over rising Asia. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on the most fluid & increasingly scarce of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else on the pretty girl whose star rises alongside his their paths crossing & re-crossing in a love affair sparked & snuffed out again by the forces that careen their fates along. The hero of the story could be any one of us hungry for a different life. & ours too could be the fate that awaits him... Fast-paced vivid & emotionally absorbing How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia" creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change." ...

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