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Moth Smoke

by Mohsin Hamid · 2000

Literary Fiction · ranked #72 in category

Daru Shezad, a former banker in 1990s Lahore, loses his job, becomes addicted to heroin, falls in love with his best friend's wife and descends into a spiral of crime and self-destruction. Hamid's debut is a stylish, fractured narrative set against the backdrop of Pakistan's nuclear tests and the society of privilege and exclusion they exposed.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2000 · 2000s
Author
Mohsin Hamid
Standing
Essential Read

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