How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia : A Novel (Paperback)

from brenzi

In Mohsin Hamid's follow-up to his rather unsettling but absolutely riveting novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, he once again utilizes an unnamed narrator who has put together this self help book for anyone who is interested in accumulating great wealth. Each chapter is entitled with the steps ...

from checkadawson

I've read Mohsin Hamid's novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and I really enjoyed the unique point of view in that novel (written from the point of view of a terrorist addressing a foreigner). This novel is similarly unique. It is written in a second-person point of view, which has the effect of ...

from clfisha

Exciting, fascinating experimentation. A pastiche on the self help novel, a sharp social commentary on modern day Pakistan and a story of the rise and fall of one unnamed man. In fact that man is "You", this novel is written in the 2nd person. "Is getting filthy rich still your goal above all goa...

from steve02476

Really liked a lot. It starts out as a pretty funny snarky description of life as a struggling mini entrepreneur in India but gets more serious and more soulful as it goes on. Wonderful writing.

from richardderus

Rating: 3.5* of five The Publisher Says: 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 i...