How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia..., Mohsin Hamid
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia..., Mohsin Hamid
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Author: Mohsin Hamid

Narrator: Mohsin Hamid

Unabridged: 4 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2013


Synopsis

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 impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over rising Asia. In a sprawling metropolis, its nameless hero begins to amass an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises along with his, their paths crossing and recrossing, a lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the forces that careen their fates along. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a striking slice of contemporary life at a time of crushing upheaval. Romantic without being sentimental, political without being didactic, and spiritual without being religious, it brings an unflinchi

About Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid's first novel, Moth Smoke, won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. His second, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a bestseller in the United States and abroad, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Hamid contributes to The New Yorker, Granta, Time, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among others. He lives in Lahore, Pakistan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by jordan on April 08, 2013

You are considering buying a work by Mohsin Hamid. Something about the length and odd construction of the title puts you off. And then there on the cover is that goldfish -- what is up with the goldfish? So you are no doubt thinking to yourself, should I buy this novel, "How To Get Filthy Rich In As......more

Goodreads review by Roxane on September 21, 2012

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia has a lot going on. There are two books in this novel--one that is eminently successful and one that is not. The narrative frame here is that of a self help book on getting filthy rich in rising asia. The entire novel is told in the second person with a narrator......more