The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
2007
ISBN 978-0-241-14370-4
An intriguing tale of a Pakistani who is educated in America and begins to make great money working for an American firm. When the Twin Towers are destroyed and he returns to Pakistan for a holiday with his family things begin to change for him.
The tale is told in the first person. The narrator has met an American stranger in a Lahore cafe and begins to tell his life story, interspersed with drinks, a meal and descriptions of the local people and happenings.
