The Reluctant Fundamentalist

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
An award-winning, thrillingly provocative international bestseller - adapted to a major motion picture starring Riz Ahmed and Kiefer Sutherland - from the author of Exit West

Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America . . .

So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For he is more worldly than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear . . .

Challenging, mysterious and thrillingly tense, Mohsin Hamids masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of todays globalised, fractured world.

PRAISE FOR THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST:

Beautifully written . . . more exciting than any thriller Ive read for a long timePhilip Pullman

Admirably spare and amazingly excitingRachel Cooke, New Statesman

Sharp, relevant, impressively intelligent . . . entertains at the same time as it makes you thinkDaily Telegraph

A cleverly constructed fable of infatuation and disenchantment . . . Intelligent and highly engaging, genuinely provocativeGuardian

A brilliant bookKiran Desai

Prods the intellect, quickens the pace and captures the imaginationSunday Times