MOHSIN HAMID
Thursday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m.

Co-presented with JAZBAH. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, Mohsin Hamid did college studies in the U.S. and now lives in London. He received high praise and numerous honors—the Betty Trask Award, New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and PEN/Hemingway finalist status—for his first novel, Moth Smoke. He makes this welcome first appearance here for his much-anticipated new novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt). "Hamid's second book is an intelligent and absorbing 9/11 novel, written from the perspective of Changez, a young Pakistani whose sympathies, despite his fervid immigrant embrace of America, lie with the attackers." - Publishers Weekly. "A brilliant book. With spooky restraint and masterful control, Hamid unpicks the underpinnings of the most recent episode of distrust between East and West ... The narrative is balanced by a love as powerful as the sinister forces gathering, even when it recedes into a phantom of hope. It is this balance, and the constant negotiation of the political with the personal, that creates a nuanced and complex portrait of a reluctant fundamentalist." - Kiran Desai. For information on Jazbah, see www.jazbah.org.

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