how to get filthy rich in rising asia review

As cities change, as trends move in new and varying directions literature reflects these changes. Modern literature without the city seems impossible. The modernising, globalising, rapidly changing urban environment makes the literary novel possible. Modern literature has always been intricately linked to patterns of urbanisation. The title is seemingly a critique of both the misguided romanticism invested in literature and the misguided practices of uncovering sources to instant wealth. This promises to be a novel of practical and professional value for the earnest reader – rather than merely of being morally and ethically enlightening. The cover looks like the cover of a book that is usually accompanied by the words ‘now a major motion picture’ (with accompanying portrait of stunning actress and handsome actor). Hamid plays with his readers and their expectations of the book. But, it is also a kind of genre fiction, for its appropriation of the self-help book mannerisms. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Hamid’s website states, has been listed in 30 ‘best books of the year’ lists. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is just over 200 pages, the font is small, but is well spaced it is a page turner, and is told in the second person throughout. Mohsin’s books have been translated into some 20 languages – inclusive of Indonesian, Slovenian and Swedish. Commentary, feedback from where the book is set is of little relevance. Literary success is marked by the amount of reviews the book creates from journalists in the US, Europe, Great Britain. These quotes already tell us something about the success and reach of the book. It is published by Penguin, 2013, and it has five pages of endorsements – quotes coming from Philip Pullman, Times Literary Supplement (no author mentioned), Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times, The Economist, and, seemingly the sole representative from rising Asia itself, the Pakistani Herald states, “nothing short of a masterwork. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is Mohsin Hamid’s third novel.

How to get filthy rich in rising asia review