AT A CAFte TABLE IN LAHORE, a Pakistani man converses
with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he
begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful
encounter...
Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. After
graduating at the top of his class at Princeton, he lands an elite
job in New York City. His budding romance with chic, beautiful
Erica promises entry into society at the same ex-alted level once
occupied by his family in Pakistan. But in the wake of September
11, Changez finds his new American life suddenly overturned and his
identity in seismic shift, unearthing allegiances more fundamental
than money, power, and maybe even love.