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Mohsin HamidThe Reluctant Fundamentalist
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Introduction
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Genre: Fiction; realistic framed narrative
- Originally Published: 2007
- Reading Level/Interest: College/Adult
- Structure/Length: 9 chapters; approx. 191 pages; approx. 4 hours, 15 minutes on audio
- Protagonist and Central Conflict: Changez is a young Pakistani immigrant caught up in an elite New York lifestyle and his own success in his job for a profitable valuation company; after 9/11, however, he finds his relationships as well as his place and role in his adopted city uncertain. In a framed narrative, Changez tells his story to an American man in a café in Lahore.
- Potential Sensitivity Issues: 9/11; immigration; cultural identity; privilege; discrimination
Mohsin Hamid, Author
- Bio: Born in 1971 in Lahore, capital of Punjab, a province in Pakistan; a novelist and essayist; has works translated in over 40 languages; author of bestsellers and film adaptations; has lived in London, New York, and California
- Other Works: Moth Smoke (2012); How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013); Exit West (2017)
- Awards: Man Booker Prize shortlist (2007); Asian American Literary Award (winner, 2008); Guardian's Books of the Decade (2009); BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World (2019)
CENTRAL THEMES connected and noted throughout this Teaching Unit:
- The American Dream
- 9/11 and the War on Terror
- Nostalgia
- Identity
STUDY OBJECTIVES: In accomplishing the components of this Unit, students will:
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