Nadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people attempting to do an extraordinary thing-to fall in love-in a world turned upside down. Theirs will be a love story but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow, of a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it. Civil war has come to the city that Nadia and Saeed call home. Before long they will need to leave their motherland behind-when the streets are no longer useable and the ...
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an American stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting… Among the brightest and best of his graduating class at Princeton, Changez is snapped up by Underwood and Samson, an elite firm that specializes in ‘valuation’ of companies ripe for acquisition. He thrives on New York and the intensity of his work, and his infatuation with the ...