Fiction from Pakistan

While our president is making his bold and reasoned overture to the Muslim world, he and we need all the help we can get to understand how people in that world imagine their reality. This issue of new fiction from Pakistan is one way into that imagination: Words Without Borders: Issue edited by Basharat Peer

The ones we really need to be afraid of

Here is an intense narrative that will help Americans understand how the sophisticated youth of Pakistan (and probably other countries of the East and South) see us, and why we should worry. Very quickly and movingly told. Click on title for my synopsis and comment.

Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. 1st ed. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007.

Thanks to Andrew Hull for recommending and lending me this book.