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Article: The Reluctant Fundamentalist.(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- May 20, 2008
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
By Mohsin Hamid.
Harcourt, 192 pp., $22.00.
An ambitious young man leaves the provinces, hoping to make his fortune in the city. He first is infatuated with the glittering world he finds there, then gradually becomes disillusioned by the anxiety and corruption beneath the bright surface. What moral choices will the young man make? What will he become if he remains in the city? This, one of the classic plots of 19th- and 20th-century European and American literature, becomes globalized in Mohsin Hamid's thriller.
Changez, the reluctant fundamentalist of the title, is a Pakistani who comes to Princeton on a ...