Name: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Paperback/Mohsin Hamid
Brand: Riverhead Books
Price: 89.99 RON
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-Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers.- -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times -A globalized version of The Great Gatsby . . .Hamid's] book is nearly that good.- -Alan Cheuse, NPR -Marvelous and moving.- - TIME Magazine From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West, coming March 2017, the boldly imagined tale of a poor boy's quest for wealth and love 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.- It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he 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 unflinching gaz