About the Book: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize 2007
At a cafe table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an American
stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to
this fateful meeting.
Among the brightest and best of his graduating class at Princeton, Changez is
snapped up by Underwood and Samson, an elite firm that specializes in
'valuation' of companies ripe for acquisition. He thrives on New York and the
intensity of his work, and his infatuation with the beautiful erica promises
entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own
family