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  The Reluctant Fundamentalist  by Mohsin Hamid is a novel that presents itself with an interesting story. It is a story of an identity crisis as the protagonist strives to search his real identity, and to found the real self he goes through a lot. The protagonist of the novel is Changez, a Pakistani living in the vicinity of America. He gets his higher education from America and achieves a position in a multinational company. But even after getting all these leverages, he is still considered as a threat because of his Pakistani origin. He feels misfit in America on various occasions but, especially on the airport when all the other employees of his company went to their destinations and, he was stopped at immigration for a thorough investigation because of his Pakistani descend. He fell in love with an American girl Erica.  Erica's presence warns him of her being smitten for life by her first love. Changez helplessly moves into an emotional abyss. She fails to find...

  Twilight in Delhi is the first novel in the history of subcontinent  to address various controversial themes such as identity crisis, fall of Mughal Empire, family values and position of women in the society. The setting of the novel is 1911 and it focuses on the social and political changes take place during that time. This is such a novel which can easily leads you to the roller-coaster of emotions. Twilight in Delhi is a beautiful novel artistically written by Ahmed Ali. This novel discusses explicitly the complex relationship among family members. The story of this novel talks about the disappearance of a purpose, isolation, deterioration and disintegration of a family. Twilight in Delhi is a novel that follows the story of Mir Nihal who is a Muslim of Sub-continent. In this novel, the aspect of colonization and Imperialism is also present. Mir Nihal is first shown as a powerful person and glorified just like Delhi but later his glory diminishes that symbolizes the d...

  Home Fire is such a novel which can intrigue you or make you tear up because of its interesting storyline. This novel highlights the discrimination that Muslims go through in different parts of the region. Isma and Aneeka and Parvaiz are siblings, and they follow their own line of incidents and problems. Aneeka and Pervaiz are twins while Isma is their older sister, who took care of them since the age of seven when after the death of their mother they have become orphan. Their late father was a Jihadi, So Isma and Aneeka are in constant fear while living in Britain. This novel highlights Muslims living in Britain and facing Islamophobia on various occasions. But the focus of this novel is their social and family life rather than their religion. But we get the gist from very ordinary things as Isma is interrogated at Immigration. This novel is the rewriting of Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. In the same manner Aneeka, the reincarnation of Antigone in modern-day Home Fire ...