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The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man’s abandonment of his high-flying life in New York—an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11.

 

At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. He begins to tell the story of a man named Changez, who is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his relationship with Erica shifting. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.


拉合爾巿集的一間茶館裡，

巴基斯坦男子跟美國陌生人叨叨述說自己的故事。

當夜越來越深，男子的故事漸漸透露出，兩人的相遇或許並非偶然……

 

生命中會有那麼些時候，一些比金錢、地位，甚至愛情更重要的東西，從心底蠢蠢湧出……

 

來自巴基斯坦沒落家族的成吉思，曾經努力編織美國夢，而他也的確過上了許多移民夢寐以求的生活：從普林斯頓大學畢業，被曼哈頓的頂尖財務顧問公司招攬，跟氣質高雅的富家女談戀愛，擠身紐約上流社會。沒落貴族出身的他悄悄以為，命中注定他就是要過這樣的生活。然而，九一一恐怖攻擊之後，什麼都變了。成吉思周遭的世界、自己深愛的女人、內心的自我認同，所有的一切開始分崩離析，而一些過去從沒注意過、潛藏在心底最深處的東西，開始慢慢湧出。

——中文簡介摘自印刻出版《拉合爾茶館的陌生人》