The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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Champs at the Lit

Mark Thomas

11 episodes

8 months ago

In Champs at the Lit, Mark and Max talk about books.

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In Champs at the Lit, Mark and Max talk about books.

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Champs at the Lit

1 hour 4 minutes 28 seconds

2 years ago

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

This episode is about The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a novel by the Pakistani-British author Mohsin Hamid.

References:

Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid
Moth Smoke, by Mohsin Hamid
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a box office bomb starring Riz Ahmed
Opinion piece on Pakistani-Indian relations by Mohsin Hamid: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/opinion/pakistani-militants-the-enemies-of-peace-the-internal-enemies-of-pakistani-peace.html
Mohsin Hamid profile: https://www.fastcompany.com/3045216/why-companies-need-novelists
Interviews with Mohsin Hamid: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3c7l and https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0144ybj
Critique of Hamid's work by Zain R Mian: https://herald.dawn.com/news/1398781
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
The Fall, by Albert Camus

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