{"product_id":"moth-smoke-9781594486609","title":"Moth Smoke","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe debut novel from the internationally bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eExit West \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Reluctant Fundamentalist\u003c\/i\u003e, both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoth Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e, Mohsin Hamid's deftly conceived first novel, immediately marked him as an uncommonly gifted and ambitious young literary talent to watch when it was published in 2000. It tells the story of Daru Shezad, who, fired from his banking job in Lahore, begins a decline that plummets the length of Hamid's sharply drawn, subversive tale.\u003cp\u003eFast-paced and unexpected, \u003ci\u003eMoth Smoke \u003c\/i\u003ewas ahead of its time in portraying a contemporary Pakistan far more vivid and complex than the exoticized images of South Asia then familiar to the West. It established Mohsin Hamid as an internationally important writer of substance and imagination and the premier Pakistani author of our time, a promise he has amply fulfilled with each successive book. This debut novel, meanwhile, remains as compelling and deeply relevant to the moment as when it appeared more than a decade ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781594486609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Mohsin Hamid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36661084815516,"sku":"9781594486609","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_01abd32f-70ff-4b94-99a9-863d13083ef2.jpg?v=1603898570","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/moth-smoke-9781594486609","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}