Born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan, Mohsin Hamid’s experience is evident in his novel, Moth Smoke. Indeed, his Pakistani childhood, through which he was immersed in the culture and traditions of his home nation, enabled him to create a novel that centered on his own experience, fictionalized through the use of different characters. The use of common language terms that are seen in Pakistan and first-hand details of how the city works provides a prose that is rare in most Pakistani literature. In
Fables comes to mind, not the dark, dank, heroin‑laced world of Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke. But, reading is like fashion, and one man’s cherished plaid pants are another man’s horror. Not all fiction can directly dole out moral advice, such as Jane Austen’s warnings about the dangers of hasty judgment in Pride and Prejudice, but almost all fiction can proffer tales that at the very least expand our range of vision. Moth Smoke brings us, its intended American audience, into the foreign world of
a vivid description of life that the reader’ s sensibilities are shocked to read about Saeed’s parents’ intimate life, very much as we were shocked when the same was done for the parents of ‘you’ in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Why does Hamid do that, I wonder? Perhaps because in the typical Eastern context we cannot imagine such things happening, perhaps he is trying to make us realize that people who are parents are also very human. Indeed he is trying to break us out of our protective
“You can avoid reality, but you can not avoid the consequences of avoiding the reality” (Ayn Rand, 1905-1982). In Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid, the air-conditioning is one of the most significant details in the novel that represents some of the themes that Hamid wants to emphasize. Besides jewelry, enormous house, and high-priced car air-conditioner is one of the elements that distinguish wealth from poverty. More than that, one of the reasons why Mumtaz falls in love with Daru relates to the air-conditioner
in the other south Asian countries. The minority that belongs to upper class violates the rights of the majority that belongs to the lower class. Many writers had talked about this hierarchical system. One of them is Aravind Adiga from India and Mohsin Hamid from Pakistan. Aravind Adiga’s “The White Tiger” captures the existing social and individual ethos of
as they were or the fate and society were the main reasons behind their downfall and their character assassination. Introduction. Mohsin Hamid and F. Scott Fitzgerald, although they don’t belong to the same era but there are many similarities between both of their works. For instance,