![]() ![]() ![]() Even as a teenager, our hero is determined and ambitious: When he meets the “pretty girl” who he will be obsessed with for the rest of his life, he doesn’t allow love to divert him from his quest-the second step in Hamid’s scheme. Our hero’s father, who works as a personal servant and sends his wages home to support his family, eventually brings his family to the city-the first step in Hamid’s tongue-in-cheek reworking of the hackneyed how-to-get-rich scheme. It’s the life story of an unnamed man, an amoral Horatio Alger who is born to a poor family in a rural village in a country that sounds a lot like India (but could be any developing nation with an emerging economy). ![]() Hamid, whose previous novels, The Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, were shortlisted for several major literary awards, including the Booker Prize, creatively appropriates the self-help format in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. And Mohsin Hamid’s new novel fits the bill perfectly. It’s always enlightening-and enjoyable-to read business literature that actually qualifies as literature. ![]()
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