Moth Smoke

‘Brisk, absorbing, inventive. Hamid steers us from start to finish with assurance and care’

The New York Times Book Review

‘Not often does one find a first novel that has the power of imagination and skill to orchestrate personal and public themes of these consequences and achieve a chord that reverberates in one’s mind … One of the two or three best novels I have read this year’

Nadine Gordimer

‘Extraordinary’

Philadelphia Inquirer

‘An irresistibly engaging adventure and a searching portrait of contemporary young people in Pakistan’

Joyce Carol Oates

‘Beautiful prose and uncomfortably acute insights’

Guardian