A review by george55
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

3.0

Presented in the first person throughout, this “conversation” with an anonymous American in Lahore depicts Changez, a highly educated and successful Pakistani who becomes disillusioned and hostile to America following the 9/11 attacks. The speed and extent of his change in views is rapid, and this stretches plausibility. It is also not clear where his beliefs come from which so quickly replace those beliefs or principles which allowed him to work in the American financial sector in the first place. Nevertheless a very clever and attractive read, which has a strong “voice”.