This author used his experience of reading Things Fall Apart to explain fiction's power to sway politics in a recent New York Times Bookends column.
This author used his experience of reading Things Fall Apart to explain fiction's power to sway politics in a recent New York Times Bookends column. In a novel by this author, a "matriarch" will only pay for the surgery portion of thyroid cancer treatment for the mother of a university organization member. Learning about the Janissaries from a Valparaiso book publisher convinces the narrator of another novel by him to leave a job that earlier sends him to the Philippines. An unnamed "pretty girl" flits in and out of the urban life of a (*) bottled water entrepreneur in a novel by this author structured as a self-help book. In another novel by him, Erica's grief over the lung cancer victim Chris haunts her relationship with the Princeton-educated ex- Underwood Samson analyst Changez, who grows a beard and moves back to Lahore after 9/11. For 10 points, name this Pakistani author of How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
This author used his experience of reading Things Fall Apart to explain fiction's power to sway politics in a recent New York Times Bookends column.
Mohsin Hamid