How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia Summary

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The second person "you" is hard to read, although talented writers like Junot Diaz have done wonders with it, and Hamid's usage of "you" feels especially appropriate for this biting story. The "yous," Hamid seems to say, encompasses every individual in ascent Asia...continued

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(Reviewed by Poornima Apte).

Media Reviews

Bookforum

Hamid's choice to write a bildungsroman wrapped inside a self-help manual is an inspired i… Hamid has left the states with no doubts about how state and market place, police force and crime, nation and corporation, and money and violence go together - in rising Asia as in the residue of the globe.

The Washington Mail service

Working within the frame of a self-help volume would seem constricting at best, abrasive at worst, but Hamid tells a surprisingly moving story…His protagonist is never named, indeed, there aren't any named people or places in this novel…But the story manages to be both particular and wide at the same time.

The Daily Brute

Written in the most compelling second person since Jay McInerney's Brilliant Lights, Big Urban center, with which it likewise shares a abrupt accept on our frenetic, urban lives, Hamid's novel proves that the most compelling fiction today is coming from South asia.

The Nation

An amazing and riveting tale of a homo'southward journeying from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon.

The New York Times

With How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as i of his generation's near inventive and gifted writers.

The Guardian (UK)

A joyously barbed satire on entrepreneurialism and the juggernaut of globalisation… Volition be 1 of the standout novels of the year.

Publishers Weekly

Hamid offers a subtle and rich look at the social realities of developing countries, including corruption, poverty, and how economic evolution affects daily life from acme to lesser.

Kirkus

Starred Review. Another corking success for Hamid and another illustration of how richly the colonial margins are feeding the core of literature in English.

Author Blurb Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big Metropolis and How It Ended

A dazzling stylistic tour de force; a dearest story disguised as a self-help guide, freighted with sly social satire. As timely and timeless a novel as I've read in years.

Author Blurb Philip Pullman, author of The Gilded Compass

A marvelous book.