Eventually published to acclaim in 2000, Moth Smoke heralded Hamid a rising star with a keen ear and mature understanding of modern, post-nuclear Pakistan. In 1993, at the age of 21, Hamid began his first work, Moth Smoke, the fatalistic story of Daru, an intelligent, frustrated, middle-class banker seeking entrance to the naval-gazing, materialistic power-web of the Lahori elite. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)įiction fans should be grateful Mohsin Hamid left his New York corporate cubicle to pursue his grand ambitions of becoming a novelist.ĭuring his undergraduate Princeton days, the Pakistan-born writer honed his skills with creative writing courses taught by Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates. Men wave Pakistan's national flags as they attend a ceremony to mark the country's Independence Day at the Wagah border crossing with India on August 14, 2012.
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