The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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Title The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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Author Mohsin Hamid
Publisher Hamish Hamilton
Released April 2, 2007

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel by Mohsin Hamid that was published in 2007 by Hamish Hamilton in the UK, Harcourt in the US, and worldwide in 16 languages. In it, over the course of an evening in an outdoor Lahore cafe, a bearded Pakistani man called Changez (chun-GAYS, the Urdu name for Ghenghis) tells a nervous American stranger about his love affair with, and eventual abandonment of, America. A short story adapted from the novel called Focus on the Fundamentals appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of The Paris Review.

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