How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid's third novel is written in the form of a self-help book, addressing its unnamed hero in the second person as it traces his life from poor village boy to wealthy businessman in an unnamed, fast-growing Asian country. Each chapter borrows the language of a how-to guide, with titles like Move to the City and Work for Yourself, while telling the story of his ambition, love, compromise, and aging. Hamid uses the playful frame to comment on capitalism, inequality, and the cost of chasing success, and to follow a tender thread between the man and a woman he loves across decades. Published in 2013, the book was praised for its formal invention and its emotional weight beneath the satire.
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Framed as a self-help guide, this novel follows one man's rise from rural poverty to wealth in a changing Asian city.
Mohsin Hamid uses the self-help format and second-person voice as a frame to follow one man's rise from poverty to wealth while satirizing ambition and inequality.
No. It is a novel that borrows the style and chapter titles of a self-help guide to tell a moving story about a life across decades.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia was written by Mohsin Hamid, published in 2013 by Riverhead Books.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is 228 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia takes most readers 3 to 5 hours to finish.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
