How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the boldly imagined tale of a poor boy's quest for wealth and love. Mohsin Hamid's first two novels established him as a radically inventive storyteller with his finger on the world's pulse. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia meets that reputation, and exceeds it: the astonishingly original story of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon—a beautiful, funny, profound narrative that steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over rising Asia. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises along with his, their paths crossing and recrossing as their fates veer ever more wildly together and apart, a lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the forces that careen their lives along.