Mohsin Hamid | Observer

By The Editors 3/12 7:00pm

On the Page: Mohsin Hamid and Rebecca Miller

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Mohsin Hamid

(Riverhead Books, 228 pp., $27)

The nearly banal truth that “a self-help book is an oxymoron” is where Mohsin Hamid launches his effervescent third novel, a narrative of individual striving in the subcontinent, gesturing beyond the vagaries of self-betterment to something all-encompassing, at once recalling Read More

By Landon Thomas Jr. 4/23/01 12:00am

Akhil and Mohsin Get Paid: Moonlighting Salomon Smith Barney, McKinsey Guys Write Novels

Akhil Sharma and Mohsin Hamid are pals. Young, wealthy and whip-smart, they earn nice mid-six-figure salaries in high-powered New York jobs.

Mr. Sharma, 29, is an investment banker at Salomon Smith Barney, works 80-hour weeks and lives on the Upper West Side. Mr. Hamid, 29, is a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, advises media Read More

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On the Page: Mohsin Hamid and Rebecca Miller

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