how to get filthy rich in rising asia by mohsin hamid

The young and old play a cat-and-mouse waiting game. Generations are a way of life in Pakistan, where young men often live with their parents and elders like Hamid, who shares his home with his parents. 'I had just become a father and I wanted to write a novel about the tri-generational life,' Hamid said in the capital.

This is his third book and one inspired by the writer's personal fortunes. The songs invoking the nameless divine speaks to the listener or the exponent like the book that addresses the reader in a second-person narrative. It could have been any place - why not Lahore or Lagos? The writer explains his narrative without specifics, comparing it to the Sufi ghazals that he grew up with. The ingrained view is that South Asia is an 'exotic place, a peculiar place and a central place - it is a colonial mindset'.

The idea of taking the names of the narrative - reminiscent of many avant garde writers like Lawrence Sterne, James Baldwin and James Joyce - is 'liberating' for Hamid. The writer says that he had initially started out with the idea that he was not going to name things and people because they mean certain things. Hamid takes his hero through 12 steps in 12 chapters to become a moneybag in a nameless city in South Asia that sizzles with energy, opportunity and inequality. He becomes a entrepreneur and 'filthy rich'. 'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia', released last week, uses the format of the self-help and motivation book as a literary device to tell the story of the third son of a cook who leaves his village to move to a city, falls in love with a pretty girl and sets up an industry. Mohsin Hamid, the Pakistan-based author of best-selling novels like the 'Moth's Smoke' and 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist', shows what it means to get rich in a rising Asia in a new novel at a time when the developing economies in the region are straining to push up their GDP figures that have been slumping all too often. 499 How-to-Get-Filthy-Rich-in-Rising-Asia-by-Mohsin-Hamid Book: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

How to get filthy rich in rising asia by mohsin hamid