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The New York Times Bestseller 2022

The Last White Man

How to Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia

A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems

Exit West

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London

Discontent and Its Civilizations

Moth Smoke

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A first novel of remarkable wit, poise and profundity. A treat

A vivid portrait of contemporary young Pakistani life, where frustration and insecurity feed not only the snobbery, decadence and aspirations of the rich, but also the resentment of the poor

A rare glimpse into modern-day Pakistan . . . The voices that emerge are sarcastic and sad, a lively lament . . . reminiscent of V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie

Not often does one find a first novel that has the power of imagination and skill to orchestrate personal and public themes of these consequences and achieve a chord that reverberates in one's mind. Moth Smoke is one of the best novels I have read this year

Stunning . . . [Hamid] has created a hip page-turner

In Lahore, Daru Shezad is a junior banker with a hashish habit. When his old friend Ozi moves back to Pakistan, Daru wants to be happy for him. Ozi has everything: a beautiful wife and child, an expensive foreign education - and a corrupt father who bankrolls his lavish lifestyle. 
 
As jealousy sets in, Daru's life slowly unravels. He loses his job. Starts lacing his joints with heroin. Becomes involved with a criminally-minded rickshaw driver. And falls in love with Ozi's lonely wife. 
 
But how low can Daru sink? Is he guilty of the crime he finds himself on trial for?

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'You know you're in trouble when you can't meet a woman's eye, particularly if the woman happens to be your best friend's wife...' 
 
In Lahore, Daru Shezad is a junior banker with a hashish habit. When his old friend Ozi moves back to Pakistan, Daru wants to be happy for him. Ozi has everything: a beautiful wife and child, an expensive foreign education - and a corrupt father who bankrolls his lavish lifestyle. 
 
As jealousy sets in, Daru's life slowly unravels. He loses his job. Starts lacing his joints with heroin. Becomes involved with a criminally-minded rickshaw driver. And falls in love with Ozi's lonely wife. 
 
But how low can Daru sink? Is he guilty of the crime he finds himself on trial for? 
 
'Subtly audacious . . . A steamy and often darkly amusing book about sex, drugs, and class warfare in postcolonial Asia' Village Voice 
 
© Mohsin Hamid 2000 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Mohsin Hamid (Author, Reader) MOHSIN HAMID writes regularly for The New York Times, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books, and is the author of Exit West, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Discontent and its Civilizations. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he has since lived between Lahore, London and New York.

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