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Moth Smoke is the debut novel by British Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid, published in 2000. It tells the story of Darashikoh Shezad, a banker in Lahore, Pakistan, who loses his job, falls in love with his best friend's wife, and plunges into a life of drugs and crime.
Mohsin Hamid’s first novel, Moth Smoke, examines class and privilege, drugs, and sex in 1990s Pakistan. The novel plots the unraveling of Darashikoh Shezad’s life. When the book opens, Daru is on trial for the death of a boy, and the text examines the events leading up to this false accusation.
Jan 1, 2001 · 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.
Dec 4, 2012 · Moth Smoke is a short but interesting novel that focuses on the imprisonment of Daru and the events that lead to the downfall of his life. The book appears at first to skip around, and can become somewhat confusing as you're taken through the twists and turns of the upper and middle class of Pakistan.
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About Moth Smoke. The debut novel from the internationally bestselling author of Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid’s deftly conceived first novel, immediately marked him as an uncommonly gifted and ambitious young literary talent to watch when it was published in 2000.
Jan 1, 2001 · In Moth Smoke, author Mohsin Hamid offers an intriguing and unique commentary of contemporary Pakistan through the tale of Daru, a young, well to do banker whose gradual descent into poverty and vice critiques the Pakistani middle and upper classes.
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Feb 6, 2012 · Moth smoke. by. Mohsin Hamid. Publication date. 2000. Publisher. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
