6/22/2023 0 Comments Novel the reluctant fundamentalist![]() ![]() This young man is Changez, the main character and narrator in Mohsin Hamid’s best-selling novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Yes, despicable as it may sound, my initial reaction was to be remarkably pleased. ![]() I stared as one and then the other of the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Centre collapsed. But as I continued to watch, I realised that it was not fiction but news. I turned on the television and saw what at first I took to be a film. After work one day, sitting in his Manila apartment, the young man switches on the TV. ![]() There, he begins to enjoy his status as an American, looking down upon the locals even if they are men of his father’s age. The young man is sent by his company to the Philippines on assignment. He strikes up a relationship with an emotionally troubled but wealthy and highly-sought-after Anglo-American woman. He completes his degree, achieving an A-grade in each subject, before being quickly recruited by a boutique New York firm and becoming part of the Manhattan corporate and cultural landscape. A bright young Pakistani man receives a scholarship to study business at Princeton University in the United States. ![]()
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