Mohsin Hamid 
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia 

What does it take for you to climb from complete poverty to a mansion, bullet- proof car and bodyguards? Twelve simple rules . . . How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is the story of a young boy, born into a poor family. As the years pass, he moves to a slum in the city, gets a brief education, flirts with militancy, and then, hungry for advancement, sets up a bottled water business, the ultimate symbol of the modern South Asian city a place where nothing works but everything can be had at a price. But as he leaves his past behind, one thing remains constant and true his love for the girl he met as a teenager. Both particular and universal, socially acute and deeply romantic, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is the story of the South Asian city today a place sizzling with energy, opportunity and inequality and the life of one man and his extraordinary journey. Told through the conventions of a self-help guide to becoming rich, this is a dazzling and virtuoso novel written with wit, intelligence and deep humanity.