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Moth Smoke

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Lahore's descent into a gritty vortex of self-destruction.

If you're drawn to narratives that peel back the layers of modern society, "Moth Smoke" will captivate you. Mohsin Hamid lays out Daru Shezad's spiraling life with such precision that Lahore's atmosphere seeps through the pages. It's a story that fuses urgency with a critique of social structures, making it hard to put the book down. This isn't just an exposition of Pakistan’s complexities; it’s a mirror to the personal chaos that can engulf anyone, anywhere.

  • Betty Trask Award (2001)
  • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Nominee (2001)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Moth Smoke

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ISBN: 9781594486609
Authors: Mohsin Hamid
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date of Publication: 2012-12-04
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.85
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The debut novel from the internationally bestselling author of Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid’s deftly conceived first novel, immediately marked him as an uncommonly gifted and ambitious young literary talent to watch when it was published in 2000. It tells the story of Daru Shezad, who, fired from his banking job in Lahore, begins a decline that plummets the length of Hamid’s sharply drawn, subversive tale. Fast-paced and unexpected, Moth Smoke was ahead of its time in portraying a contemporary Pakistan far more vivid and complex than the exoticized images of South Asia then familiar to the West. It established Mohsin Hamid as an internationally important writer of substance and imagination and the premier Pakistani author of our time, a promise he has amply fulfilled with each successive book. This debut novel, meanwhile, remains as compelling and deeply relevant to the moment as when it appeared more than a decade ago.
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Lahore's descent into a gritty vortex of self-destruction.

If you're drawn to narratives that peel back the layers of modern society, "Moth Smoke" will captivate you. Mohsin Hamid lays out Daru Shezad's spiraling life with such precision that Lahore's atmosphere seeps through the pages. It's a story that fuses urgency with a critique of social structures, making it hard to put the book down. This isn't just an exposition of Pakistan’s complexities; it’s a mirror to the personal chaos that can engulf anyone, anywhere.

  • Betty Trask Award (2001)
  • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Nominee (2001)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.