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|author=Mohsin Hamid
|title=How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Inside Mohsin Hamid's ''How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia'' is a bitter-sweet love story disguised as a self help book. It's a well structured concept and works nicely. Each chapter is presented in the format of those common to the self help genre, with advice like 'Move to the City', 'Get an Education' etc., although the chapter entitled 'Be Prepared to Use Violence' is a notable omission from most business tomes and self help books. After some general chatty comments in the self help book style, the attention turns to two people who are named only 'the boy' and 'the pretty girl', charting their rise and fall from rural poverty in an unnamed Asian country (although it certainly feels like Pakistan) to business success and wealth in the city. The two are not a couple, but their lives cross at frequent times and he, in particular, remains infatuated with his childhood acquaintance.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144663</amazonuk>
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|summary=Back in 1960 Stuart couldn’t get to sleep on a very hot night. He lived at the pub next door to the bus garage and the sounds drifted upwards. A man screamed and then there was the sound of a heavy weight falling. When he jumped out of bed he saw someone scurrying away. No one was interested in what Stuart might have heard, or seen and even he lost interest as the day after the inquest (the mechanic’s death was ‘an accident’, the coroner said) his best friend, Declan, disappeared. Twelve years later Stuart was leading a feckless life but was still convinced that there was a connection between the mechanic’s death and Declan’s disappearance. He was also involved in an illicit love affair with Kathy - and if he had to pick the wrong person then it was Kathy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848766963</amazonuk>
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