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Life Winter break in Ireland anyone? Discover everything home has to offer with a staycation Life, Page 36 Brace yourself for winter Health & Habitat, pg 33 35 Build your immune system Oct/Nov 2010 www.esb.ie/em Image in-box 1 a selection of your photography 3 2 6 4 5 10 8 9 7 1. ‘grazing at dawn near Lakes of Killarney’ by Veronica o’Dwyer. 2. ‘Take off in the Saltee Islands, Co. Wexford’ by Brian fleming. 3. ‘Balmy evening on Swords Estuary’ by Conor o’Sullivan. .4. ‘Loop Head Lighthouse’ by Kevin grace. 5. ‘In mid-air in Kilkee’ by Leon Brinkley. 6. ‘I‘ve heard of white noise but orange noise? - netherlands v Cameroon World Cup group Stage, Cape Town, South Africa’ by Harry Doherty. 7. ‘Liffey Sunset’ by Jim Stitt. 8. ‘uninvited guest to Slieve Donard Hotel, Co. Down’ by Cyril Loughlin. 9. ‘Don’t take short cuts, rescue from Table mountain, Cape Town, South Africa’ by Harry Doherty. 10. fanad Heaven, Portsalon, Donegal by Cyril Loughlin.. This alone singles him out as one of the brightest and best young people of his generation. book review He is so successful at Princeton that he immediately finds employment with a small but The reluctant prestigious company. This comFundamentalist pany pays well and will eventuBy Mohsin Hamid ally guarantee him a place at Published by Penguin the Harvard Business School. Price €11.05 not only that, an executive in the A young mAn from Lahore in company likes him and takes a Pakistan qualifies to become a special interest in him. During a graduation party in student at Princeton in the uS. By Katherine Thorne greece, he falls in love with a beautiful girl called Erica. Their romance does not quite flourish as his college career does. nevertheless, it is part of his successful venture into the uS. Then 9/11 happens and everything changes. He is on a business trip to manila when he sees the news as the twin towers collapse. Despite his success in the uS, his initial reaction as a Pakistani is to be “remarkably pleased”. Subsequently he goes through a period of soul searching before he makes his crucial life-altering decision. This is facilitated by a remark from a business man in Valparaiso in Chile. The reluctant fundamentalist is a small book but gigantic in its scope. geographically we move from Pakistan to the u.S., then to greece, the Philippines and Chile. Emotionally we share the ups and downs of a foreign student living in the u.S. We follow his romantic pursuits and then his dilemmas as a Pakistani national in the uS in the wake of 9/11. one could be tempted to dismiss this book as didactic if it weren’t for the technique he adopts of addressing the entire story to one American he meets in Lahore sometime after the whole experience. Very few books manage to say so much in such a short space. n Emotionally we share the ups and downs of a foreign student living in the US http://www.esb.ie/em

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