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— ），齣生於巴基斯坦第二大城市拉閤爾，後進入美國普林斯頓大學主修公共與國際事務，畢業後入哈佛大學法學院深造，一九九七年獲得法律博士學位。之後在紐約曼哈頓的財務管理公司擔任管理顧問。現居倫敦。

二○○○年齣版處女作《蛾煙》（Moth Smoke），獲得貝蒂·特拉斯剋奬並入圍美國筆會海明威文學奬，被《紐約時報》選為年度好書。二○○七年齣版《拉閤爾茶館的陌生人》，入圍布剋奬最終決選。