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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
ANew York Timesbestseller
AWashington Post andSan Francisco ChronicleBest Book of the Year
ANew York TimesNotable Book
Extreme times call for extreme reactions extreme writing Hamid has done something extraordinary with this novelWashington Post
At a caf table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger As dusk deepens to night he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter
Changez is living an immigrants dream of America At the top of his class at Princeton he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm He thrives on the energy of New York and his budding romance with elegant beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in LahoreBut in the wake of September 11 Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned and his relationship with Erica shifting And Changezs own identity is in seismic shift as well unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money power and maybe even love
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