A lot unsaid

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About half-a-decade ago, he had the world at his feet with The Reluctant Fundamentalist,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], zealous. And in no time, Mohsin had carved out a following that transcended religion,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], region,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and indeed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], language. The book was translated into more than 30 languages. And like a good film,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], many found themselves visiting Mohsin book more than once. Mohsin had once,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], famously quipped,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], rather people read my book twice than only half-way through. It was a fine strategy, 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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], no an encore,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but another refined work by Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as it turns out, 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, 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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], most chaotic ring of global economy Mohsin, the master of understatement that he is,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], presents a very different picture. Writing in the opening chapter, he begins,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], unless you writing one,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a self-help book is an oxymoron. This is true of the whole self-help genre. It true of how-to books,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for example. Then,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in a classical Mohsin way,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he unobtrusively contradicts that in the next paragraph,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 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,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], really! Really. The way Mohsin builds his narrative,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], layers his plot is intriguing, his skills second to no inquisitor. He says what is required,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], barely so. He leaves a lot unsaid. And in that lies an explosion of ideas,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], interpretations, scope of unending debates,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], even sermons. He describes the book rather succinctly. book is a self-help book. Its objective,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as it says on the cover,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is to show you how to get filthy rich in rising Asia. And to do that it has to find you, huddled,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], shivering,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 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, 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, he makes a profound statement most simply. the city,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], ten thousand makes you a poor man. No sermons,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], no diatribes. He just feels the pulse. And we as readers feel his passion. But from the fare on offer, 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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