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Some post 9/11 popular books

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fatema_diu:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus
The Zero by Jess Walter
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
 Home Boy by HM Naqvi
The Submission by Amy Waldman
Oblivion by David Foster Wallace
The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits
A Better Angel by Chris Adrian

Afroza Akhter Tina:
...nice sharing Madam,would love to read The Zero  :)




Afroza Akhter Tina
Senior Lecturer
Department of English, DIU

fatema_diu:
Some lines from "The Reluctant Fundamentalist". Iv also attached the story.

"Tell me something. Where are you from?î
I said I was from Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York,
layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British. He merely nodded. Then he
said, ìAnd are you on financial aid?î
I did not answer him at once. I knew there were subjects interviewers were not permitted to broachóreligion, for example, and sexual
orientationóand I suspected financial aid was one of these. But that was not why I hesitated; I hesitated because his question made me feel
uncomfortable. Then I said, ìYes. "

Tahsina:
When will I read all these! Uf!  :-\

fatema_diu:
Mohsin Hamid, the writer of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, holds both Pakistani and British citizenship. He was born  in America , stayed there up to the age of 9, then he shifted to Pakistan and went to the Princeton University at 19. The hero of the novel Changez has some similarities with him.

The hero is not necessarily very religious but denounce a lucrative job in a consultancy farm  after some ethical question being aroused from his observation of the American treatment of the Pakistani and other relevant people( after 9/11).

Watch his interview in BBC
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00290j7

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