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Featured Fiction Author
Featured Fiction AuthorNovelist Mohsin Hamid
Journalist and bestselling novelist Mohsin Hamid grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, and attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School before turning to fiction. His first novel, Moth Smoke, won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize. His second, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, recently adapted for film, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His third novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, is at once an inspired satire and a poignant love story. Discover a few of his top recommendations below.
For lovers
A story of young love from the vantage point of later life. A song reminds a man on a plane of a woman. Both were broken when they first met. He is still broken now. Set in Japan, it is familiar and strange, and the book I gave my wife on our first date. Buy Now
For high school reunions
An exquisitely constructed series of fragments links a teenaged girl in California to her later incarnations as lover, employee, mother, and friend. Hard-edged and tender, this books folds the time between youth and middle age back in on itself. Buy Now
For trips around the world
Bursting with lovers, coups, poison, steamships, mosquitoes, jungles, mountains, and formerly-important towns now in decline, this novel itself is like a trip around the world. Or many trips, with enough events to last several lifetimes. The summer I read it in Pakistan, I immediately decided to save up to visit Latin America. Buy Now
For dreamers
Fascism spreads across 1930s Portugal as an overweight journalist rediscovers his conscience. This is a political thriller, a meditative love story between a man and his dead wife, and a cry of hope that penetrates savagery. It is also idealistic, and exquisitely beautiful. Buy Now
For the end of the world
Manto was one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century and one of South Asia's true masters. Read him and prepare to be dazzled by power -- and bawdiness. His tales around the 1947 partition of British India into present-day Pakistan and India tell of the savagery, sadness, and insanity of a world literally coming to an end. Buy Now
