Changez is not a practicing Muslim-Hamid goes as far as to suggest, in an article in The Guardian, that Changez may be an atheist-yet everyone perceives him as Muslim due to his ethnicity and place of birth, which results in Changez having to take a series of major, unexpected steps. Later, Changez, who has begun to feel welcome in New York due to the city’s ethnic diversity, witnesses 9/11 on television while on a business trip in Manila, and his life abruptly changes. Do not be frightened by my beard: I am a lover of America.” So begins Mohsin Hamid’s Man Booker-shortlisted The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a novel which follows the transnational journey of Changez, a young man from Pakistan, as he leaves Lahore and becomes a successful businessman in New York City. “Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. This year I find myself thinking of the opening lines of a novel published in 2007.
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