Over one evening in a Lahore café, a Princeton-educated Pakistani tells an American stranger the story of his disillusionment.
Books mentioned in The Reluctant Fundamentalist (3)
Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino: “there was a passage in Mr. Palomar that captured perfectly my dilemma.”
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “a magnificent property that made me think of The Great Gatsby.”
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: “Are you familiar with The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? You have seen the film, you say? I have not, but I am sure it was faithful; certainly the prose version was a most powerful work.”