The Reluctant Fundamentalist:
Written by: Mohsin
Hamid
Narrated by: Satya
Bhabha
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Time: 4 Hours 43 Minutes
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man
converses with a suspicious and possibly armed American stranger. As dusk deepens
to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting.
Changez is living an
immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at
Princeton, he is snapped up by Underwood Samson, an elite firm that specializes
in the valuation of companies ripe for acquisition. He thrives on the energy of
New York. But in the wake of 9/11, he finds his position in his adopted city
suddenly overturned. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing
allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and perhaps even love.