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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

by Mohsin Hamid - £8.99  Penguin Books Ltd (Hamish Hamilton Ltd) (2014)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780241144671 | ISBN 10: 0241144671

Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a bold new novel for the modern world.
 
In this keenly-awaited follow-up to his bestselling The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid confirms his place as a radically inventive story-teller with his finger on the world's pulse.
 
The astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by youths all over 'rising Asia'. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on the most fluid and increasingly scarce of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises alongside his, their paths crossing and re-crossing in a love affair sparked and snuffed out again by the forces that careen their fates along.
 
The hero of the story could be any one of us, hungry for a different life. And ours too could be the fate that awaits him . . .
 
Fast-paced, vivid and emotionally absorbing, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change.

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