Chapter 108: Mohsin Hamid on the pleasures of pages and the pulse of Pakistan

<p >Mohsin Hamid is one of the greatest writers of this generation.</p> <p > </p> <p >He was born in 1971 in Lahore, Pakistan before moving to California at age 3 while his dad did a doctorate at Stanford. At age 9, in 1980, he moved back to Pakistan and remained there until he was 18 when he came back to the US to go to Princeton. He graduated summa cum laude and studied under novelists Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates.</p> <p > Mohsin's first novel, Moth Smoke (2000), told the story of an ex-banker and heroin addict in contemporary Lahore. His second, The Reluctant F...