The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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REVIEW: The Reluctant Fundamentalist By Mohsin Hamid Published by Penguin/Viking Price: Rs 295/- Now here's a book that pulls in you in from the get go. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is written in a very stark, spare sort of prose...but takes the form of a conversation. A conversation between the reluctant fundamentalist, Changez (pronounced cheHnghayz) and an American ex-military type...all the world away in Lahore. It's a beautiful book. Changez's conversation allows for a tableau to unfold - where you see a young Changez, old-World and charming, beginning to make a life of it in the US - as a bright Princeton graduate who's snapped up by an elite valuation firm, Underwood Samson and Company...where someone sees in him the burning drive to make it big. You see Changez doing well, falling in love, almost happy, with an American he meets in far-off....