The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Bindung: Gebundene Ausgabe
Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation: 813.54
EAN: 9780151013043
ISBN: 0151013047
Label: Harcourt Brace & Co
Hersteller: Harcourt Brace & Co
Anzahl Seiten: 192
Erscheinungsdatum: April 02, 2007
Herausgeber: Harcourt Brace & Co
Studio: Harcourt Brace & Co
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Produktbeschreibung:Amazon.com:Mohsin Hamid's first novel,
Moth Smoke, dealt with the confluence of personal and political themes, and his second,
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, revisits that territory in the person of Changez, a young Pakistani. Told in a single monologue, the narrative never flags. Changez is by turns naive, sinister, unctuous, mildly threatening, overbearing, insulting, angry, resentful, and sad. He tells his story to a nameless, mysterious American who sits across from him at a Lahore cafe. Educated at Princeton, employed by a first-rate valuation firm, Changez was living the American dream, earning more money than he thought possible, caught up in the New York social scene and in love with a beautiful, wealthy, damaged girl. The romance is negligible; Erica is emotionally unavailable, endlessly grieving the death of her lifelong friend and boyfriend, Chris.
Changez is in Manila on 9/11 and sees the towers come down on TV. He tells the American, "...I
smiled. Yes, despicable as it may sound, my initial reaction was to be remarkably pleased... I was caught up in the symbolism of it all, the fact that someone had so visibly brought America to her knees..." When he returns to New York, there is a palpable change in attitudes toward him, starting right at immigration. His name and his face render him suspect.
Ongoing trouble between Pakistan and India urge Changez to return home for a visit, despite his parents' advice to stay where he is. While there, he realizes that he has changed in a way that shames him. "I was struck at first by how shabby our house appeared... I was saddened to find it in such a state... This was where I came from... and it smacked of lowliness." He exorcises that feeling and once again appreciates his home for its "unmistakable personality and idiosyncratic charm." While at home, he lets his beard grow. Advised to shave it, even by his mother, he refuses. It will be his line in the sand, his statement about who he is. His company sends him to Chile for another business valuation; his mind filled with the troubles in Pakistan and the U.S. involvement with India that keeps the pressure on. His work and the money he earns have been overtaken by resentment of the United States and all it stands for.
Hamid's prose is filled with insight, subtly delivered: "I felt my age: an almost childlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that attaches itself to the man who lives alone and supports himself by wearing a suit in a city not of his birth." In telling of the janissaries, Christian boys captured by Ottomans and trained to be soldiers in the Muslim Army, his Chilean host tells him: "The janissaries were always taken in childhood. It would have been far more difficult to devote themselves to their adopted empire, you see, if they had memories they could not forget." Changez cannot forget, and Hamid makes the reader understand that--and all that follows.
--Valerie Ryan
A Conversation with Mohsin Hamid 
Set in modern-day Pakistan, Mohsin Hamid's debut novel, Moth Smoke, went on to win awards and was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His bold new novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, is a daring, fast-paced monologue of a young Pakistani man telling his life story to a mysterious American stranger. It's a controversial look at the dark side of the American Dream, exploring the aftermath of 9/11, international unease, and the dangerous pull of nostalgia. Amazon.com senior editor Brad Thomas Parsons shared an e-mail exchange with Mohsin Hamid to talk about his powerful new book
Read the Amazon.com Interview with Mohsin Hamid
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I took up this book by chance and have been unable to put it down.
One of the things that draw you into the book is the language. It flows lightly, builds pictures and eases you into a different world. Hamid manages to give you the feeling you are sitting there with him, listening to his story and getting into his head and his emotions. Even the unknown person he talks to, who never gets to say anything, feels very familiar at the end.I was sorry when it ended.
It could be a book I would give teens to read for the easy clear English. But then again it is not a book for teens for the topic it deals with, its political and social implications and consequences.
Definitely a book worth reading.
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Zwei Männer treffen sich in Pakistan: ein Amerikaner und ein Pakistani. Letzterer erzählt seine Lebensgeschichte von einem jungen Moslem der auszieht nach Amerika um dort sein Glück zu machen. Er studiert an einer der besten Universitäten des Landes, verliebt sich und genießt das westliche Leben. Nicht ausschweifend, eher schüchtern aber doch offen nimmt er den westlichen Lebensstil in seinem Leben auf.
Sein erster Job in einer Art Investmentbank ermöglicht ihm einen bescheidenen Wohlstand und internationale Reisen. Er ist rundum zufrieden und erst mit den Ereignissen des 11. September beginnt sich seine Sicht der Welt zu wandeln und er wendet sich, anfänglich widerstrebend, dann immer freudiger, wieder seinem heimatlichen Wertesystem zu.
Die Betonung liegt auf "widerstrebend", denn in diesem Wandlungsprozess ist er verunsichert und stellt nicht nur seine Mitmenschen, sondern auch das eigene Leben in Frage. Dieses mündet, als er in seinem etwas heruntergekommenen ... weiter
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Ein faszinierendes Buch über 09/11 und die Folgen. In den USA. In den Köpfen der Amerikaner und im Kopf der Hauptperson. Ich habe das Buch verschlungen, da es einerseits fesselnd ist, andererseits in einem Englisch geschrieben ist, das fast jeder verstehen kann. Ich wünschte mir mehr davon ...
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The idea, which starts off "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" is indeed brilliant, a man takes a seat at another man's table and starts telling him his story. A story of his Princeton studies, of a love lost to a dead man and of the professional possibilities in the United States, given at first and left unused by himself as an indirect result of the September 11th events. The novel evolves well and is beautifully written. My main objection is, that at that "one" moment when you expect to be finally elevated into the "why's and what's" level of the plot, I had the feeling that the author had a sudden urge to finish his novel. Of course, this is a subjective feeling and maybe wrong. Anyway, I felt that there were too many crucial open points for me after closing this book and with all respect to open endings, this one left me quite unhappy. What I personally also could not really identify, was the fundamentalism of the narrator. A good read, a remarkable talent of a writer, but no masterpiece. I do think ...
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This short novel draws you in right from the start which is due to a) the clever narrative that uses a first-person narrator addressing an unspecified American person, so there is lots of "you's" b) the charmingly old-fashioned style/vocabulary. The narrator seems a very likeable young man and so you begin to wonder what could ever turn him into the person mentioned in the title. I'm still not sure whether Hamid actually made that clear and the ending is not really helpful, but the pleasure of reading made up for these shortcomings. There is also an interesting lovestory with someone from America whose name is Erika ... This novel might actually make a good read for students in the Oberstufe, if you can live with the ending.
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