The Reluctant Fundamentalist Summary - Mohsin Hamid

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Author: Mohsin Hamid
First Published: 2007
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: The early twenty-first century
Setting: Lahore, Pakistan; New York City; Valparaíso, Chile
Genres: Long fiction
Subjects: United States or Americans, Twenty-first century, American Dream, Muslims, Terrorism or terrorists, Chile or Chileans, Pakistan or Pakistanis, Fundamentalism
Locales: Asia

Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist is told from the first-person point of view in the present, as a kind of prose dramatic monologue addressed to Changez’s unnamed guest at a restaurant in the Old Anarkali district of Lahore, Pakistan. With first-person narration there is usually a problem with the reliability of the narrator, and that is the case with this novel. As is the case with Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues, which are much shorter, the speaker not only tells his own story but also gives his readers information that they must weigh and...

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