The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

I was reading a lot of serious stuff that I made it a point to read something else just for the heck of reading something light.

I looked at this one and thought of one more movie which is going to be unwatched.

This is a monologue of a successful financial analyst in US. And the uncomfortable part of the narrative is that it moves as a knee jerk reaction. It is less surprising and more annoying to keep reading it this way. They call it metafictional and it sounds like an ornamental title.

It is more like a one sided love story, a lot critical of US foreign policy, psychological derangement, and construed plot of a geographical war. I could've said it has a good pacing but it was regularly interrupted by schoolgirls, chai, snacks, jalebi, kababs, family and the waiter at the hotel who don't add anything to the plot or ambience.

I guess the movie might have been different (which will stay unwatched) given the kind of medium it is but the book can be excused.

Peace