Mohsin Hamid is the author of three novels, Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and a book of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations.
His writing has been featured on bestseller lists, adapted for the cinema, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, selected as winner or finalist of twenty awards, and translated into more than thirty languages.
He was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.
His writing has been featured on bestseller lists, adapted for the cinema, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, selected as winner or finalist of twenty awards, and translated into more than thirty languages.
He was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
Moth Smoke (1998)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013)
Exit West (2017)
The Last White Man (2022)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013)
Exit West (2017)
The Last White Man (2022)
Non fiction
Awards
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Mohsin Hamid recommends

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Happiness, Like Water (2013)
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How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (2013)
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"Smart, funny, and wonderfully irreverent."

Bangkok Wakes to Rain (2019)
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Are You Enjoying? (2021)
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"Fresh, intelligent, and bold: Mira Sethi’s stories open up fascinating slices of contemporary life in Pakistan."

The Every (2021)
(Circle , book 2)
Dave Eggers
"Hilarious and horrifying and idealistic. An unusual combination in a novel, or in anything else, really, but here the necessary result of a powerful writer taking on much of what matters most to our future."
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