From Pakistan, Changez, the protagonist and narrator of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, moved to New York to study Finance at prestigious Princeton University. Changez’s affluent family was not spared from the hard times that swept Pakistan and his American education was due primarily to granted aid and loans. The combination of determination, focus, and […]
Venture Into The Surreal
If there is only one word I could employ to describe Haruki Murakami’s fiction, it would be hypnotic. I was in trance going through the maze of his multi-layered novel, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. This novel was admittedly not a quick read for me. I realized that I had been lugging this quite thick book […]