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Review A lucid, unsettling novel.-- "New Yorker"A searing and powerful account of a Pakistani in New York after 9/11.-- "Mira Nair, director of The Namesake"A tale of enormous tension-more exciting than any thriller I've read in a long time.-- "Philip Pullman, bestselling author of the His Dark Materials series "Changez's voice is extraordinary. Cultivated, restrained, yet also barbed and passionate, it evokes the power of butler Stevens in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day.-- "The Seattle Times"Elegant and chilling...his tale [has] an Arabian Nights-style urgency: the end of the story may mean the death of the teller.-- "New York Times Book Review"It's never clear from narrator Satya Bhabha's focused performance whether the American is there to befriend or harm the Pakistani. Ultimately that ambiguity makes the story all the more interesting because it puts the symbolic choice in the listener's hands.-- "AudioFile"Slender, smart, and subversive.-- "Entertainment Weekly"This novel's firm, steady, even beautiful voice proclaims the completeness of the soul when personal and global issues are conjoined. -- "Booklist (starred review)" Product Description At a cafe table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with a suspicious and possibly armed American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting.Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by Underwood Samson, an elite firm that specializes in the valuation of companies ripe for acquisition. He thrives on the energy of New York. But in the wake of 9/11, he finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and perhaps even love. About the Author Mohsin Hamid is the internationally bestselling author of Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Discontent and its Civilizations, and Exit West. His award-winning novels have been adapted for the cinema, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and translated into more than thirty languages. His essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and New Yorker, among many other publications.Satya Bhabha is a British-born American actor and director best known for his role as Matthew Patel in the film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. His New York credits include work with the Living Theatre, Target Margin Theatre Co., Les Freres Corbusier, and the Culture Project. Satya trained with the National Youth Theatre and has worked with a range of companies and theaters, including the National Theatre, SHUNT, the Red Room, and the Clod Ensemble. He is a Yale graduate and currently resides in New York.