Could this be memoir dressed in self-help book’s clothing? Like the guy who tells his doctor about his friend with venereal disease, we start to wonder if the hypothetical “you” to whom all this “advice” is addressed mightn’t be the narrator himself. This is all the more remarkable since you’ve never in your life seen any of these things.” Your anguish is the anguish of a boy whose chocolate has been thrown away, whose remote controls are out of batteries, whose scooter is busted, whose new sneakers have been stolen. huddled, shivering, on the packed earth under your mother’s cot one cold, dewy morning. To be effective, the narrator says, the book needs to find “you. As its title - How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - brazenly proclaims, Mohsin Hamid’s third novel posits itself as a self-help book for those seeking to cash in on the phenomenon of rising Asia - the continent that makes all our stuff, supports all our tech and to which our collective global future naturally belongs.Īlthough the book’s chapters have broadly aphoristic titles like “Learn from a Master,” “Work for Yourself,” or “Be Prepared to Use Violence,” their substance is uncomfortably specific.
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