The chapters have titles such as "Move to the City," "Avoid Idealists" and "Be Prepared to Use Violence."īook Reviews Hamid's How-To For Success, 'Filthy Rich' In Irony That voice tells "you" how to get filthy rich in rising Asia, and in doing so, Hamid tells the story of a rural youth who moves to the city and begins making the brutal compromises that a poor boy must make to get ahead. His crisp voice could have suited an old-style newsreel narrator, and when you read the sentences of his slender novels, it is easy to hear that voice speaking them. The author of this particular self-help book is in his early 40s, a Pakistani with an American education and a past as a business consultant in both countries.
You read a self-help book so someone who isn't yourself can help you." It is only the author who is helping himself. He begins with a disclaimer: "A self-help book is an oxymoron. Hamid returns to the second person in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, but this time it's in the form of a self-help book - a particularly sly one. The bearded narrator of that book sits at a tea stall in Lahore, talking about his drift toward extremism while directly addressing "you," the reader, who is taken to be an increasingly jumpy and terrified American across the table. His The Reluctant Fundamentalist was written entirely in the second person.
This is not the first time Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid has taken a risky approach to a novel.
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