This Week's Book & Quote

This Week's Book & Quote
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Book of the Week: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid | international literature festival berlin
Mohsin Hamid. Photo from the International Literature Festival Berlin

Book Quote

“If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.”

~ Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2007