Excerpt from How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

A Novel

by Mohsin Hamid

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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

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  • First Published:
    Mar 2013, 240 pages
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    Mar 2014, 240 pages

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Moving to the city is the first step to getting filthy rich in rising Asia. And you have now taken it. Congratulations.

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Adapted from How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid by arrangement with Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc., Copyright © 2013 by Mohsin Hamid.

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