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How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia is a rags to riches tale written in a very unique style. This book has been written in second person to address the reader. Summary Of The Book How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia, published in 2013, shows twelve simple steps that one must follow in order climb out of poverty, and become wealthy. The protagonist is a boy who is addressed as “you” throughout the book. He belongs to a poor family in an unnamed Asian country. His father decides to move to the city, where the family lives in a slum. The protagonist has the good fortune of going to school, unlike his older siblings. He starts to deliver pirated DVDs in order to make some money. Meanwhile, he falls in love with someone who is addressed as “the pretty girl” throughout the pages of How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia. However, this girl moves out of the city and becomes a successful model. He realizes that the system that exists is very corrupt, and decides to become a part of it in order to become rich and successful. He sets up a fake bottle water business. His products are sold as mineral water, though they are just boiled and packaged. Over time, he becomes extremely successful and shows readers that in Asian cities most systems do not work, and yet everything one desires can be obtained at a price. How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia then shows how the protagonists marries a woman half his age. His love for “the pretty girl” has however remained unchanged. Will his teenage love story have a happy ending? Or will materialistic gains be all that he cares for? This self-help guide has chapter names that are infact pieces of advice. Some of them include Get an Education, Befriend a Bureaucrat, Move to the City, and Avoid Idealists. This story is refreshing and approaches the problems faced by people in developing countries in an engaging manner. About Mohsin Hamid Mohsin Hamid, born in 1971, is a Pakistani author. The other books that he has written are Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Hamid is a Princeton University graduate. He then joined Harvard Law School, and later became a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York. In 2001, the author moved to London, and he became a dual citizen of the United Kingdom. Hamid’s first novel, Moth Smoke, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His next novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It won various awards including the Asian American Literary Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Both of his books have been selected as the New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His articles have been published in The New York Times, TIME, Dawn, The International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and The Washington Post. He later shifted to Lahore. Hamid now moves around between Pakistan, the UK, the US, Greece, and Italy