![]() ![]() He appears to have been something of an enigma until his reaction to the attacks–a sudden smile–pierces the shell. Fresh out of Princeton, he was living in New York City and working as a financial analyst. ![]() In 2001, as he explains, Changez was hardly a radical. That monologue is the substance of Hamid’s elegant and chilling little novel. Changez happens upon the American in Lahore, invites him to tea and tells him the story of his life in the months just before and after the attacks. Yes, despicable as it may sound, my initial reaction was to be remarkably pleased.” “I stared as one–and then the other–of the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center collapsed. While on a business trip to Manila, he turned on the television in his room and saw the towers fall. When I was a third of the way through Mohsin Hamid’s second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the narrator, a young Pakistani man named Changez, tells the American stranger about how he first learned of the destruction of the World Trade Center. ![]()
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