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A review by arixen
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
5.0
Brilliant author. His words are poetic in the elements that he writes about. The title is misinforms the reader but one should realize that this is what Mohsin does. It is one of his shorter novels I've read by him, but I loved his characters just the same. I appreciated the story. The parallels between the pretty girl and the main character. You want so badly for him to make things work with the pretty girl. But you can not be filthy rich and have the love he felt for the pretty girl, you sacrifice one for the other.
“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.”
“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.”