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| Author | Mohsin Hamid |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Granta (UK) Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US) |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-374-21354-2 |
| OCLC | 42397410 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3558.A42169 M68 2000 |
Moth Smoke is the debut novel by British Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid, published in 2000.[1] It tells the story of Darashikoh Shezad, a banker in Lahore, Pakistan, who loses his job, falls in love with his best friend's wife, and plunges into a life of drugs and crime. It uses the historical trial of the liberal Mughal prince Dara Shikoh by his brother Aurangzeb as an allegory for the state of Pakistan at the time of the 1998 nuclear tests.
- ^ "Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid: 9781594486609 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 6 March 2021.