The Tubridy Show – Book Club List 2008
The Tubridy book club has restarted for 2008-2009 and the first book is: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mohsin Hamid)
Synopsis:
At a cafe table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting…Among the brightest and best of his graduating class at Princeton, Changez is snapped up by an elite firm and thrives on New York and the intensity of his work. And his infatuation with fragile Erica promises entree into Manhattan society on the exalted footing his own family once held back in Lahore. For a time, it seems as though nothing will stand in the way of Changez’s meteoric rise to personal and professional success: the fulfillment of the immigrant’s dream. But in the wake of September 11, he finds his position in the city he loves suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and perhaps even love.
About the Author:
Mohsin Hamid grew up in Lahore, attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School and worked for several years as a management consultant in New York. His first novel, Moth Smoke, was published in ten languages, won a Betty Trask award, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Mohsin Hamid currently lives, works and writes in London.
May 2008
‘Teacher Man: A Memoir’ by Frank McCourt
April 2008
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger.
March 2008
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
February 2008
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
January 2008
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (Pan Macmillan)