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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Name: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Author: Mohsin Hamid

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is the third novel by writer Mohsin Hamid.The novel uses a second-person perspective, referring to the protagonist only as "you." The story takes place in an unnamed country that resembles Hamid's home country of Pakistan. It details the protagonist's beginnings as a poor boy, and quest for wealth and love as he moves to the city and enters the bottled water business. The Telegraph called it "his most impressive yet"; other critics did not regard it as a highly as his previous novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

“Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.”

Mohsin Hamid book How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

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“It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books…”

Mohsin Hamid book How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

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“But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.”

Mohsin Hamid book How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

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