A review by reads2cope
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

4.5

“The bombing of Afghanistan had already been under way for a fortnight, and I had been avoiding the evening news, preferring not to watch the partisan and sports-event-like coverage given to the mismatch between the American bombers with their twenty-first-century weaponry and the ill-equipped and ill-fed Afghan tribesmen below. On those rare occasions when I did find myself confronted by such programming in a bar, say, or at the entrance to the cable company's offices I was reminded of the film Terminator, but with the roles reversed so that the machines were cast as heroes.”