Moth Smoke
  • Published:
    Feb-2000 (Hardcover)
    2001 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    256
  • Age Level:
    18 & up
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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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    • Feb-2001
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0312273231
    • ISBN13: 9780312273231
    •  
    • Apr-2000
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140297049
    • ISBN13: 9780140297041
    •  
    • Jan-2001
    • Granta Books (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1862074054
    • ISBN13: 9781862074057
    •  
    • May-2011
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0241953936
    • ISBN13: 9780241953938
    •  
    • Dec-2012
    • Riverhead
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1594486603
    • ISBN13: 9781594486609
    • First Edition
    • Feb-2000
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0374213542
    • ISBN13: 9780374213541
    •  
    • Dec-2012
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1101617691
    • ISBN13: 9781101617694
    •  
    • Dec-2012
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0141969148
    • ISBN13: 9780141969145
    •  
    • Jul-2007
    • AudioGO
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0792748581
    • ISBN13: 9780792748588
    •  
    • Feb-2008
    • Blackstone Audio, Inc.
    • Audible



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