num_pages: 228
description: At a caf table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounterChangez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. He thrives on the energy of New York and his budding romance with elegant beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore.But in the wake of September 11 Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned and his relationship with Erica shifting. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money power and maybe even love.
language: English
title: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
publisher: Mariner Books; 1 edition