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How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

by Mohsin Hamid
. March 2013. 240p. 978-1-59448-729-3. 26.95.
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The title could come from one of those get-rich-quick books, and in fact Hamid imaginatively uses that genre’s format to shape his narrative. But this is very much a novel, by the author of the Betty Trask Award–winning Moth Smoke and the best-selling, Man Booker–short–listed The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Here, the nameless protagonist goes from rags to riches as he builds a corporate empire based on that increasingly scarce commodity, water. He also crosses paths repeatedly and passionately with a pretty young woman on the rise. Hamid always manages to nail the realities of the culturally seismic post-9/11 world.
Reviewed by Sue White , Oct 01, 2012
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