City Books

City Books is an independent bookshop founded and run by Paul and Inge Sweetman. We pride ourselves in promoting old fashion values, whilst using the best of modern technology. City Books stock a wide range of carefully selected books. Subjects include fiction, poetry, children's books, cookery, art, business and travel. We also stock an extensive range of local books.

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Moshin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
At a café table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a 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 an elite firm and thrives on New York and the intensity of his work. And his infatuation with fragile Erica promises entree into Manhattan society on the exalted footing his own family once held back in Lahore. For a time, it seems as though nothing will stand in the way of Changez's meteoric rise to personal and professional success: the fulfilment of the immigrant's dream. But in the wake of September 11, he finds his position in the city he loves suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and perhaps even love.