Recognised by a string of awards committees for its personal and sensitive account of society post-9/11, Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a powerful and subtly suspenseful thriller. Detailing the meteoric rise to success amongst the American business world of Pakistani immigrant Changez, Hamid's award-winning novel demonstrates how success is sometimes no substitute for identity and love. Changez is living the dream, but with a political cloud descending over America, his attitudes soon change in this elegant and thoughtful story.