ON September 12, 2001, author Kamila Shamsie met Mohsin Hamid and asked: “What about that novel you were writing?” Hamid said he didn’t know what he was going to do with it, to which Shamsie said, “I think you have to keep writing it.”
That novel was The Reluctant Fundamentalist, about a Muslim boy who has “some tension with America,” which Hamid had begun writing far before the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war and strife in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hamid’s
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