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Item Details
| Title:
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HOW TO GET FILTHY RICH IN RISING ASIA
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| By: |
Mohsin Hamid |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0241145902 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780241145906 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
27 February, 2013 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
A tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on the most fluid and increasingly scarce of goods: water. |
| Synopsis: |
'This 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, huddled, shivering, on the packed earth under your mother's cot one cold dewy morning...' The astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by youths all over 'rising Asia'. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on the most fluid and increasingly scarce of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises alongside his, their paths crossing and re-crossing in a love affair sparked and snuffed out again by the forces that careen their fates along. The hero of the story could be any one of us, hungry for a different life. And ours too could be the fate that awaits him...Fast-paced, vivid and emotionally absorbing, "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia" creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change. |
| US Grade: |
Twelfth Grade and over |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Fig Tree |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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