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Moth Smoke

by Mohsin Hamid

2000 · literary fiction · young_adult

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Set in 1 place · 1 primary
Sense of Place
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Description · Open Library (CC0)

A portrait of contemporary Pakistan featuring an adulterous romance between two ultra-rich jet setters. He is a banker and she is the wife of his best friend, and she is escaping the constraints of marriage and motherhood by prowling the city as a journalist.

Set in

  • ★
    Lahore · Pakistan
    1990s Lahore elite decay
    ★ primary

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