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My Reluctant Fundamentalist
Topic: Society 11:10 am EST, Jan  6, 2008

Mohsin Hamid, looking back on the process of writing The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

The time had come for me to decide what to do with my life, and where to do it. The choices I faced were confusing.

By the summer of 2001 I had produced a draft ... a stripped-down, utterly minimalist love story of a young Pakistani man in New York who is troubled by the notion that he is a modern-day janissary serving the empire of American corporatism.

People often ask me if I am the book’s Pakistani protagonist. I wonder why they never ask if I am his American listener. After all, a novel can often be a divided man’s conversation with himself.

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