Over the next two decades, the report predicts, growth in the so-called "Global South" will cause significant shifts in economic and political power away from Europe and North America. The 2013 Human Development report from the UN Development Program sheds light on the recent, rapid expansion of the middle class in the developing world. Now is indeed a time of meteoric growth in "rising" Asia. The unnamed narrator, simply written as the second person "you," knows he has to "create" a family, a business, a life a life that moves him far beyond the restrictive confines of his poor village childhood.
But in between we can create." It is this grand arc one between life and death that the talented Mohsin Hamid traverses in his compelling new novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible.
"There was a moment when anything was possible. Stealing its shape from business self-help books, Mohsin Hamid's latest novel is the astonishing and riveting tale of an impoverished rural boy from his life to death as he tries to make his way in rising Asia.
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