How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
Self-help is the focus of this book. Its goal is to demonstrate to you how to become extremely wealthy in developing Asia, as stated on the book’s cover. And for it to do that, it must first locate you on the compacted ground beneath your mother’s cot on a chilly, foggy morning, hunched and shivering. Your suffering is the suffering of a young child whose new sneakers were stolen, whose new scooter broke, whose remote controls ran out of batteries, and whose chocolate was thrown away. Given that you have never in your life witnessed any of these things, this is all the more amazing.
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The narrative in “How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia” by Mohsin Hamid will hold your attention, but the characters’ lack of emotional nuance or character growth makes this short book kind of a one-trick pony. The trick, however, is sufficient to visit and learn more about this pony.
How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia (hereinafter “HTGFRIRA”) is a second-person narrative that follows the rise and fall of an anonymous youngster who moves to an unnamed slum of a city in poverty and ends up being one of its wealthiest residents. Along the way, he’ll fall in love, launch a company, get hitched, steer his company up the wheel of fortune, and watch as it tumbles back into the mud.
Hamid’s novel is sufficiently rooted in current Third World issues to feel significant and relevant. The problems that arise in unregulated Third World countries—lack of environmental protection, fraud, corruption, worker exploitation, and susceptibility to organized crime—apply here. And because “HTGFRIRA” is so brief and free of characters or narrative, reviewers or knowledgeable readers can readily utilize it as a tool in their next argument. like a beautiful bowl that can hold arguments. Anyone who has travelled off the beaten road in the developing world will be familiar with the milieu the novel is set in—a world of unending urban sprawl, lax environmental laws, and subpar goods. The unnamed hero skillfully exploits or sidesteps every problem I just described on his climb to the top of the Third World food chain. He is a salesman.
