ANATIONAL BESTSELLER At a café table in Lahore, a bearded 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. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of september 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez’s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.

莫欣·哈米德（1971— ），出生于巴基斯坦第二大城市拉合尔，后进入美国普林斯顿大学主修公共与国际事务，毕业后入哈佛大学法学院深造，一九九七年获得法律博士学位。之后在纽约曼哈顿的财务管理公司担任管理顾问。现居伦敦。

二○○○年出版处女作《蛾烟》（Moth Smoke），获得贝蒂·特拉斯克奖并入围美国笔会海明威文学奖，被《纽约时报》选为年度好书。二○○七年出版《拉合尔茶馆的陌生人》，入围布克奖最终决选。