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Without giving too much of the novel away, the boy and the pretty girl share a rocky relationship, meeting and separating several times. Here, he also meets his inamorata known throughout the book as the “pretty girl”, even when she becomes old and wizened, something, which yours truly finds amusing, and a little disconcerting. It follows his life from the village where he is born to the metropolitan city (anonymous) where he makes his way with family and initially starts a living as a DVD delivery boy. The story is the rising graph of a young boy from poverty to wealth in Asia. It would be unforgivable to not mention the genre of the book in this review which is self-help, but it is not the conventional type one encounters filled with empathy and laborious instructions on how to live, act and do things a certain way, rather dark and occasionally humourous. With no names for his characters, no names for any of the dwellings, virtually no name for the country it is set in, there is an elusive quality to the book, which stays until the very end. Where his predecessor novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, saw a frame story narrative, Hamid has employed the second person in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Mohsin Hamid has undoubtedly a very distinct storytelling style, particularly, because he employs unique literary techniques. Now the question: did the book do justice to the anticipation? Yes and more. An international reviewer called it the globalised version of “The Great Gatsby”. The Karachi Literature Festival 2013 in February where author Mohsin Hamid participated as one of the speakers, too, was effervescent with buzz surrounding his book. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia saw extensive promotions and pre-publicity hype well before its release date.

How to get filthy rich in rising asia characters