TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamid,Mohsin
TI  - Moth smoke
SN  - 9780241953938 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS3558.A12 M68 2000
U1  - 813.54 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
KW  - Young men
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Adventure stories
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Love stories
N2  - "When Darashikoh Shezad gets himself fired from his banking job in Lahore, he begins a decline that plummets the length of this sharply drawn, subversive tale. Before long, he can't pay his bills, and along with his electricity be loses his toehold among Pakistan's cell-phone-toting elite. As the jet set parties on behind high walls, Daru descends into drugs and dissolution; For good measure, he falls in love with the wife of his childhood friend and rival, Ozi - beautiful, restless Mumtaz, to whom he is drawn with the obsessive intensity of a moth circling a candle flame."; "Desperate to reverse his fortunes, Daru embarks on a career in crime, taking as his partner Murad Badehah, the notorious rickshaw driver, populist, and pirate. When a long-planned heist goes awry, Daru finds himself on trial for a murder he may or may not have committed. The uncertainty of his fate mirrors that of his country, hyped on the prospect of becoming a nuclear player even as corruption drains its political will."--BOOK JACKET
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