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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (origineel 2007; editie 2007)

door Mohsin Hamid

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"Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned and his relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love"--Book jacket.… (meer)

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Lid:	mtehbob
Titel:	The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Auteurs:	Mohsin Hamid
Info:	Harcourt (2007), Hardcover, 192 pages
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Compelling reading, topical and wry. (

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featherbooks | May 7, 2024 |

Hard to review this book because it was a first-person narrative told to a relative stranger over a meal in Lahore, Pakistan. The protagonist is a Pakistani native, who attended Princeton University on a scholarship and then stayed in New York City, working for a large corporation. Much of his story takes place there. After 9/11, though, everything changed, particularly the way in which Asians were treated here and he eventually returned to Pakistan, but it also explores the notion of cultural pride when it is in conflict with one's sense of morality. Must wonder how much was partly autobiographical, and there were many keen observations throughout. (

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bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |

You like him; you think he's a jerk. You pity him; you fear him. But in the end you respect him. (

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jemisonreads | Jan 22, 2024 |

The narrator of this book is a Pakistani man who goes to Princeton and then gets a job at a prestigious financial firm in New York City. He has a strange unrequited relationship with a young woman who can't let go of her love for her tragically deceased boyfriend. He thrives in the US, works very hard at his job, and loves his decadent Western life. Then the 9/11 attacks happen, and he sees the backlash against Muslims, and he becomes disillusioned about the US.

I think this book might have lost some of its impact in the 20+ years since 9/11. I didn't find anything particularly shocking or revelatory. To me it is not surprising that a Muslim immigrant would have anti-American feelings, especially after how viciously the US reacted to 9/11.

"Reluctant Fundamentalist" seems like a very strange title. The narrator does not become a religious fundamentalist. He might be labeled a terrorist sympathizer, but actual religious doctrine is not mentioned at all in this book.

The pacing of the story is strange. The book has a very long build-up to 9/11, and then seems to end pretty quickly. The whole storyline with the girlfriend doesn't seem to add anything to the story. (

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Gwendydd | Nov 5, 2023 |

The love arc was a blatant rip off of Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Spoiled the entire book for me. (

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It seems that Hamid would have us understand the novel's title ironically. We are prodded to question whether every critic of America in a Muslim country should be labeled a fundamentalist, or whether the term more accurately describes the capitalists of the American upper class. Yet these queries seem blunter and less interesting than the novel itself, in which the fundamentalist, and potential assassin, may be sitting on either side of the table.

toegevoegd door jlelliott | bewerkThe New York Times, Karen Olsson (Apr 20, 2007)

There's undoubtedly a great novel waiting to be written out of the anguished material of these kinds of east/west encounters. This book may not be it, but its author (who won a Betty Trask award for his first novel, Moth Smoke) certainly has the potential to write it.

toegevoegd door mikeg2 | bewerkThe Guardian, James Lasdun (Mar 3, 2007)

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Auteursnaam	Rol	Type auteur	Werk?	Status
Mohsin Hamid	—	primaire auteur	alle edities	berekend
Lange, Mona	Vertaler	Secundaire auteur	alle edities	bevestigd
Dishlieva-Krasteva, Nevena	Vertaler	Secundaire auteur	sommige edities	bevestigd

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Ambassador Book Award (Winnaar – Fictie – 2008)

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2008)

Asian American Literary Award (Winnaar – Fictie – 2008)

Booker Prize (Longlist – 2007)

Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Shortlist – Europe and South Asia, Best Book – 2008)

Dublin Literary Award (Shortlist – 2009)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Shortlist – Fictie – 2007)

South Bank Sky Arts Award (literatuur – 2008)

TR Fyvel Book Award (Finalist – 2008)

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New York Times bestseller (Fictie – 2007)

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"For despite my mother's request, and my knowledge of the difficulties it could well present me at immigration, I had not shaved my two-week-old beard. It was, perhaps, a form of protest on my part, a symbol of my identity, or perhaps I sought to remind myself of the reality I had just left behind; I do not know recall my precise motivations. I know only that I did not wish to blend in with the army of clean-shaven youngsters who were my coworkers, and that inside me, for multiple reasons, I was deeply angry." (p.148-9)

"...one of my coworkers asked me a question, and when I turned to answer him, something rather strange took place. I looked at him - at his fair hair and light eyes and, most of all, his oblivious immersion in the minutiae of our work - and thought, you are so foreign. I felt in that moment much closer to the Filipino driver than to him; I felt I was play-acting when in reality I ought to be making my way home, like the people on the street outside."
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"Have you heard of the janissaries?" "No," I said. "They were Christian boys, he explained, "captured by the Ottomans and trained to be soldiers in a Muslim army, at that time the greatest army in the world. They were ferocious and utterly loyal: they had fought to erase their own civilizations, so they had nothing else to turn to... How old were you when you went to America?"
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"There really could be no doubt: I was a modern-day janissary, a servant of the American empire at a time when it was invading a country with kinship to mine and was perhaps colluding to ensure that my own country faced the threat of war. Of course I was struggling! Of course I felt torn!"
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"But at that moment, my thoughts were not with the victims of the attack - death on television moves me most when it is fictitious and happens to characters with whom I have built up relationships over multiple episodes - no, I was caught up in the symbolism of it all, the fact that someone had so visibly brought America to her knees." (p.83)

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"Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned and his relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love"--Book jacket.

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