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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid
Riverhead
March 2014
On Sale: March 4, 2014
240 pages
ISBN: 1594632332
EAN: 9781594632334
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His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically
inventive storyteller with his finger on the world’s pulse.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia meets that
reputation—and exceeds it. 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 ambitious youths all over “rising Asia.”
It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis
where he begins to amass an empire built on that most fluid,
and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart
remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star
rises along with his, their paths crossing and recrossing, a
lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the
forces that careen their fates along. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a
striking slice of contemporary life at a time of crushing
upheaval. Romantic without being sentimental, political
without being didactic, and spiritual without being
religious, it brings an unflinching gaze to the violence and
hope it depicts. And it creates two unforgettable characters
who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of
shattering change.
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