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A lot unsaid,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
About half-a-decade ago, he had the world at his feet with The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a book that aroused expectations so profound and wide that he could as well have defied an armada. It found the readers keen,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], no, zealous. And in no time, Mohsin had carved out a following that transcended religion, region, and indeed, language. The book was translated into more than 30 languages. And like a good film, many found themselves visiting Mohsin book more than once. Mohsin had once, famously quipped, rather people read my book twice than only half-way through. It was a fine strategy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a tool used to evoke response. With his dramatic monologue, he was like a teacher who encouraged his pupils to think for themselves. Now,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is the time for encore,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], well actually, no an encore,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but another refined work by Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, as it turns out,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is well-flanked. On either side lay books that have evoked meaningful praises and set in motion a process of fresh delineation of thoughts and words.
Around seven years before The Reluctant Fundamentalist came Moth Smoke,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which gave us a portrait of life in Pakistan. So well-layered and nuanced was the work that Nadine Gordimer hailed it for power of imagination and skill to orchestrate personal and public themes Moth Smoke was adapted to television. And may just make it to the silver screen too, like The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Now comes How To a book released earlier this month; and promoted as novel about a thoroughly likable, thoroughly troubled striver in the messiest, most chaotic ring of global economy Mohsin,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the master of understatement that he is, presents a very different picture. Writing in the opening chapter, he begins, unless you writing one, a self-help book is an oxymoron. This is true of the whole self-help genre. It true of how-to books, for example. Then, in a classical Mohsin way, he unobtrusively contradicts that in the next paragraph, leaving you thinking. of the foregoing means self-help books are useless. On the contrary they can be useful indeed. But it does mean that the idea of self in the land of self-help is a slippery one. And slippery can be good. Oh, really! Really. The way Mohsin builds his narrative, layers his plot is intriguing, his skills second to no inquisitor. He says what is required, barely so. He leaves a lot unsaid. And in that lies an explosion of ideas,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], interpretations, scope of unending debates, even sermons. He describes the book rather succinctly. 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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], huddled,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], shivering, on the packed earth under your mother cot one cold, dewy morning. Your anguish is the anguish of a boy whose chocolate has been thrown away, whose remote controls are out of batteries,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], whose scooter is busted, whose new sneakers have been stolen. Mohsin may not say so, but haven we all faced such a fate, such dilemma?
Then a little later,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he makes a profound statement most simply. the city, ten thousand makes you a poor man. No sermons, no diatribes. He just feels the pulse. And we as readers feel his passion. But from the fare on offer,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Mohsin can count his chickens. They are well-hatched. And win he certainly can. He does different things. And does them differently too. It would please somebody answering to the name of Shiv Khera!
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