MOTH SMOKE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Mohsin Hamid | 320 pages | 16 Jun 2011 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780241953938 | English | London, United Kingdom Moth Smoke - Wikipedia Hamid is a writer to watch. He flies his pair of moths, [the characters] Daru and Mumtaz, like an expert kite fighter, singing wings and fraying strings. Hamid steers us from start to finish with assurance and care. Hamid is a writer of gorgeous, lush prose and superb dialogue. Moth Smoke is a treat. The information about Moth Smoke shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. 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BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Subscribe to receive some of our best reviews, "beyond the book" articles, book club info, and giveaways by email. Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid. Write a Review. But the die has been cast. There is no going back. The case is announced. The prosecutor rises to his feet, and his opening remarks reek of closure. The accused has stretched out his neck beneath the heavy blade of justice, and there is no question but that this blade must fall. For he has blood on his hands, Milord. Young blood. The blood of a child. He killed not out of anger, not out of scheme or plan or design. He killed as a serpent kills that which it does not intend to eat: he killed out of indifference. He killed because his nature is to kill, because the death of a child has no meaning for him. The balancing of scales awaits, Milord; redress for wrong is come. Tender humanity screams in fear, confronted by such a monster, and conscience weeps with rage. The law licks its lips at the prospect of punishing such a one, and justice can shut its eyes today, so easy is its task. Now its chair has been taken, and looks to be occupied for years to come, by the extraordinary new novelist Mohsin Hamid. Her name is Mumtez and she smokes pot and cigarettes and drinks straight Scotch. Read this book. Fall in love. Fast—paced and unexpected,Moth Smoke portrays a contemporary Pakistan far more vivid and complex than the exoticized images of South Asia familiar to the West. It established Mohsin Hamid as an internationally important writer of substance and imagination, a promise he has amply fulfilled with each successive book; this debut novel, meanwhile, remains compelling and deeply relevant today. After a number of years living in New York and London, he has again made Lahore his home. Home 1 Books 2. Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. About the Author. Hometown: London, U. Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Lahore, Pakistan. Education: A. Read an Excerpt Chapter One My cell is full of shadows. Show More. Does it give the novel extra momentum? Did you find yourself prejudging the narrator? What does each get out of the affair? Why do you think he stays on even as Daru is unable to pay him? How would you describe the interplay among classes in Lahore? What do you think Mumtaz is seeking in her work as an undercover journalist? Why or why not? Would you consider him an anti—hero or worthy of reader sympathy? Were you satisfied with the ending of this book—did everyone get the appropriate karmic payout? Related Searches. Blending Families. Today more Americans are part of a second-marriage family than a first. 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Only to be surprised when he doesn't kill the child. Then, the burglary plot unfolds. Now, you're sure Daru has killed the little boy at the boutique that he and Murad are raiding. You're convinced even after that episode concludes, that this is what has happened. It's only towards the end, that you realise what has actually happened. That Daru has been accused of killing the boy that Ozi killed, ran over in his Pajero. And then it hits you. Ozi's revenge. His way of exacting vengeance for Daru's affair with Mumtaz, of which he'd known for some time then. And your mind is in a whirl. You're left open-mouthed at this revelation, devastating as it is. You've only heard of poetic justice being meted out in books and movies. You can only shake your head in awe, for how beautifully and thoroughly your mind has been manipulated by Hamid. And then, while you re-read it, more carefully this time, you find that there was only a gunshot. It never connected with any person, only resulted in a shattering of glass. All siblings. All sons of Shah Jahan. Your mind wanders back to snippets of history you've read somewhere. You remember reading about the speedy trial Aurangzeb the original rigged for his brother, Darashikoh, and how he got Dara condemned to death, having declared him a heretic. To sum up, this book is right up there with my all-time-favourites. I never came through such complex characters and unfortunately I found them real rather than just characters. If you know Lahore and its suburbs, you can actually relate to it very well, the existence of elite class, their immoralities, the working of drug suppliers, stories of red light areas so on and so forth. He created Mumataz actually, the outstanding character, she is the women of strength and the only person with the feeling of guilt which she tried to compensate till the end,in her own way, which I think is again a mistake. Ozi turns out to be silent revenger and Daru- the ignorant, blamer and self piteous. The second favourite animal after moth in the story is Chipkali lizards. I laughed at how he defines it. View all 5 comments. Jul 15, Anum S. That was a very long analogy for the slow, steady destruction of our main character Darashikoh in this story. The reason Hamid used it is because this book reimagines the story of the Mughal prince Dara Shikoh our hero, or rather, anti-hero and his trial at the hands of his brother Aurangzeb Ozi in this story. Be that as it may, the Mughal connection is present but fleeting or maybe it's very very important and I need a two-hour lit class to recognize it. After losing his job because of his disdain for an obnoxious customer, Daro, an orphan who lives alone, finds that the lifestyle he has grown accustomed to is no longer possible on a life of no salary. This lack in finances is made worse by the reappearance of Ozi from abroad, with a child and wife in tow. The wife, Mumtaz, also plays a huge part in the narrative as the sexy, disenchanted wife, uncomfortable in her marriage and unable to love her child. Her dissatisfaction with life, her inability to accept lack of love for her child, and the facades she wears makes her one of the two in the pair of most interesting characters in this novel. Unable to deal with the reality of his situation, Daro spends more and more on drugs like heroin. His uncomfortable alliance with rickshaw driver and small-time criminal Murad Badshah, the second in the pair of most interesting characters in this story, lead to more and more drug taking, and eventually to an actual employment as a drug dealer.