{"product_id":"moth-smoke-paperback","title":"Moth Smoke - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMohsin Hamid\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn contemporary Pakistan, Daru Shezad is fired from his banking job in Lahore and thus begins a decline that plummets him into a dangerous world of drugs and crime. Fast-paced and unexpected, \u003ci\u003eMoth Smoke \u003c\/i\u003eportrays a Pakistan far more vivid and complex than the exoticized images of South Asia that are oft protrayed in the West. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis complex story 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMohsin Hamid \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the international bestsellers \u003ci\u003eExit West\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Reluctant Fundamentalist\u003c\/i\u003e, both finalists for the Man Booker Prize. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eMoth Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Foundation Award. His essays, a number of them collected as \u003ci\u003eDiscontent and Its Civilizations\u003c\/i\u003e, have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He lives in Lahore, Pakistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 04, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53476491002163,"sku":"9781594486609","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/guDCIaSHrw9781594486609.webp?v=1781624775","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/moth-smoke-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}