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How to Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia

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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Mohsin Hamid's How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, read by the author himself.

The astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, 'How To Get Filthy Rich in Asia' steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by youths all over 'rising Asia'. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on the most fluid and increasingly scarce of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises alongside his, their paths crossing and re-crossing in a love affair sparked and snuffed out again by the forces that careen their fates along.

The hero of the story could be any one of us, hungry for a different life. And ours too could be the fate that awaits him . . .

Fast-paced, vivid and emotionally absorbing, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change.

'This book is a self-help book. Its objective, as it says on the cover, is to show you how to get filthy rich in rising Asia. And to do that it has to find you, huddled, shivering, on the packed earth under your mother's cot one cold dewy morning . . .'

Critics Review

Dazzling, addictive, tremendous. A writer at the height of his powers with a hell of a story to tell
Guardian
Beautifully conceived and exquisitely executed
Sunday Times
The new voice of a changing continent. A writer at the top of his game
Metro
No story could be more of our time than this one. Conceptually brilliant and truly empathic
Metro
An ultra-intelligent and knowing account of life in the developing world. Simply brilliant
Daily Mail
Isn't this the definition of great fiction, that even when it begins with a character . . . who's nothing like you, by the end you are convinced that it really is about you? That's a kind of miracle
Salon
Even more intriguing, compelling and moving than The Reluctant Fundamentalist. A marvellous book
Philip Pullman
A dazzling stylistic tour de force; a love story disguised as a self help parody freighted with sly social satire. As timely and timeless a novel as I've read in years
Jay McInerney
Author Mohsin Hamid
Narrator Mohsin Hamid
Duration 4 hours and 35 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780241146194
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Relationships and families: advice and issues
Availability AU, GB, IE

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