 First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Mohsin Hamid |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Hamish Hamilton (United Kingdom) Harcourt (United States) Oxford University Press (Pakistan) |
Publication date | 1 March 2007 |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 0-241-14365-9 |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a "metafictional"[1] novel by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid, published in 2007.
The novel uses the technique of a frame story, which takes place during the course of a single evening in an outdoor Lahore cafe, where a bearded Pakistani man called Changez tells a nervous American stranger about his love affair with an American woman, and his eventual abandonment of America. A short story adapted from the novel, called "Focus on the Fundamentals," appeared in the fall 2006 issue of The Paris Review. A film adaptation of the novel by director Mira Nair premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival.[2]
- ^ Madiou, Mohamed Salah Eddine. "Mohsin Hamid Engages the World in The Reluctant Fundamentalist: 'An Island on an Island,’ Worlds in Miniature and 'Fiction' in the Making". Arab Studies Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, 2019, pp. 271–297. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/arabstudquar.41.4.0271.
- ^ "The Reluctant Fundamentalist Opens Venice Film Festival". Screen. 30 August 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.