Home Boy
  • Published: 24 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241961513
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Home Boy

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24 Oct 2013
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25 Jan 2012
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A hip, bittersweet page-turner about love, loss and identity - and the debut of an original, electrifying voice in fiction

Meet the Metrostanis, three young Pakistani men in New York City at the turn-of-the-millennium: AC, a gangsta rap spouting academic; Jimbo, a hulking Pushtun deejay from the streets of Jersey City; and Chuck, a wide-eyed, off-the-boat kid, searching for himself and the American Dream.

In a city where origins matter less than the talent for self invention, they have the guts to claim the place as their own. But after the fall of the towers they embark on a road-trip to the hinterland in search of 'The Shaman', a Gatsbyesque compatriot who seemingly disappears into thin air - and then things begin to go horribly wrong. Suddenly, they find themselves in a changed, charged America . . .
  • Published: 24 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9780241961513
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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Praise for Home Boy

A genius with words . . . I haven't read anything so delicious in a long time

Mohammed Hanif

Snappy, sharp, and gloriously big-hearted

Kamila Shamsie

Naqvi's prose is evocative of Nabokov in its immense energy; the vitality of the language reflects the immigrant's resourcefulness

Huffington Post

A slam-dunk for H.M. Naqvi

USA Today

Sharp, sleek prose, a tightly wrought structure and a slam poet's instinct carry this book to the top of the heap

The Hindu

A remarkably engaging novel that delights as it disturbs

The New York Times

Bursts with intelligence and energy and pathos. I haven't read anything like it

Gary Shteyngart

Naqvi's fast-paced plot, foul-mouthed erudition and pitch-perfect dialogue make for a stellar debut

Publishers Weekly