The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid, is the story of Changez, a Muslim from Pakistan, who wins a scholarship to Princeton University and then acquires a job with a prestigious firm in New York. He tells you about his life and family in Pakistan and his new life in New York but after 9/11 attitudes towards foreigners start to change and Changez starts to think about his life in New York and steadily becomes disillusioned. Finally he leaves his job and returns to Pakistan ......This book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and has just been released as a movie.
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