The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Reluctant Fundamentalist By Mohsin Hamid Novel, 184 pages I like the title of this book so I gave it a chance when a fellow bookwormie recommended it. When I started, I already liked the rhythm of this book, and I finished it in a two or three sittings. It is just long enough to tell everything and short enough to hold the interest of the reader. I came to enjoy and appreciate the literary devices employed by the writer. The speaker has a gentlemanly way of speaking, a Pakistani trait, which makes him endearing to readers and entertaining to the American guest he was talking to. The speaker's voice only tells us that he is back to the fundamentals of his own birthplace. But of course, he is opposed to violence but believes in freedom of expression when he returned to his homeland, a trait he got from his sojourn in America. The relationship that was created between the speaker and the guest in a day is hard to ignore though in the end the speaker has to give him away, bu...