Author | Mohsin Hamid |
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Published | 2013 |
Publisher | Hamish Hamilton (UK) Riverhead Books (US) |
ISBN | 978-1-59448-729-3 |
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is Mohsin Hamid's third novel, published in 2013 by Hamish Hamilton in the United Kingdom and Riverhead Books in the United States.[1]
The novel uses a second-person perspective, referring to the protagonist only as "you."[2] The story takes place in an unnamed country that resembles Hamid's home country of Pakistan.[3] It details the protagonist's beginnings as a poor boy, and quest for wealth and love as he moves to the city and enters the bottled water business.[4]