How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Cast in the mould of a self-help guide to getting rich this is the extraordinary story of a young boy born into a poor family. As the years pass he moves to a slum in the city gets a brief education flirts with militancy and then hungry for advancement sets up a bottled water business the ultimate symbol of the modern South Asian city-a place where nothing works but everything can be had at a price. But as he leaves his past behind one thing remains constant and true-his love for the girl he met as a teenager. About the Author MOHSIN HAMID writes regularly forThe New York Times the Guardian and theNew York Review of Books and is the author ofExit West The Reluctant Fundamentalist Moth Smoke How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia andDiscontent and its Civilizations. Born and mostly raised in Lahore he has since lived between Lahore London and New York.