The first ten imperatives of Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia fulfil, with sly wit and humour, the premise of the self-help book t...
The story not just touches on but firmly addresses concepts of journalistic and business ethics, international politics and intervention, racism, education, common human morals, and, as the title suggests fundamentalism.
Home Boy warrants reading and re-reading for its beautifully constructed sentences which are braided with finely observed detail. In its elegant ebb and flow, its effortless glide and dulcet cadence Naqvi's prose is reminiscent of Nabokov, the Russian émigré America claims as one of its greats.