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Title	:	Moth Smoke
Author	:	Mohsin Hamid
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	February 3rd 2001 by Picador (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Pakistan. Asia. Contemporary. Novels

Moth Smoke

Mohsin Hamid

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 8953 Users | 744 Reviews

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When Daru Shezad is fired from his banking job in Lahore, he begins a decline that plummets the length of this sharply drawn, subversive tale. Before long, he can't pay his bills, and he loses his toehold among Pakistan's cell-phone-toting elite. Daru descends into drugs and dissolution, and, for good measure, he falls in love with the wife of his childhood friend and rival, Ozi—the beautiful, restless Mumtaz.

Desperate to reverse his fortunes, Daru embarks on a career in crime, taking as his partner Murad Badshah, the notorious rickshaw driver, populist, and pirate. When a long-planned heist goes awry, Daru finds himself on trial for a murder he may or may not have committed. The uncertainty of his fate mirrors that of Pakistan itself, hyped on the prospect of becoming a nuclear player even as corruption drains its political will.

Fast-paced and unexpected, Moth Smoke portrays a contemporary Pakistan as far more vivid and disturbing than the exoticized images of South Asia familiar to most of the West. This debut novel establishes Mohsin Hamid as a writer of substance and imagination.

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Original Title:	Moth Smoke
ISBN:	0312273231 (ISBN13: 9780312273231)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Lahore, Punjab(Pakistan)
Literary Awards:	PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award Nominee (2001), Betty Trask Award (2001)

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In Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid crafts a complex story and leaves you to judge the characters, their insecurities, their arrogance, and their crimes. He has written a candid and uncomfortably honest account of contemporary Pakistan.Dara has lost his job, and all desire to pull out from the economic slump that leaves him in. He is resigned to let his insecurities take him over. Reuniting with his childhood pal Ozi and Ozi's beautiful wife Mumtaz, bring out all the hitherto buried uncertainties.

This is one clever story. What is obvious becomes not.The story follows the fortunes of Daru. He is educated, smart but is an angry young man. He loses his job as a banker and lives off the little he can earn on-selling recreational drugs. He is totally frustrated that his best friend has plenty of money, a beautiful wife and child and no end of opportunities. Daru's life unravels.The background is Pakistan. India gets the bomb. Pakistan gets the bomb. The currency and economy is in free fall



This is a first novel. It feels like one. It's about a young man's self-destructive streak fuelled by a failing economy and bad choices. To me, it never rises above this one-line synopsis.Hamid, it turns out, is all about the narrative device. His first person narrative in The Reluctant Fundamentalist elevated an ordinary plot. Here he tries constant foreshadowing of Daru's eventual doom and the occasional chapter told from the perspective of each of the side characters. These chapters turn out

Desires see no bounds, ecstasies have no walls, ambitions are not to confine, and we are left exhausted in heat of our own passions and unsaid illusions we so love to live in, as life goes on. We are choked in sepulcher of our own doomed state, we are asphyxiated by the hands of overpowering demons of dark desires, and we are drowned deep in wintery black waters of fervent sensations that leave us only to floatWe keep burning day in and day out in the fervor and at the end, the circle ends and

I actually read it as soon as the pirated version arrived on bookstores in Pakistan :). I think in 2001. Anyone who read it, waited restlessly for Mohsin's next project that came in the shape of Reluctant Fundamentalist.Strictly speaking from the narrative and characterization perspective, it is far better than Reluctant Fundamentalist. However, latter is unsurpassable in terms of its relevance to the western reader.

To be precise, good book with nothing good in it, complexes, jealousies, adultery (more relevantly having an affair with husbands best friends), alcohol, drugs and what not. I never came through such complex characters and unfortunately I found them real rather than just characters. If you know Lahore and its suburbs, you can actually relate to it very well, the existence of elite class, their immoralities, the working of drug suppliers, stories of red light areas so on and so forth. Every