The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel by Mohsin Hamid that was published in 2007 by Hamish Hamilton in the UK, Harcourt in the US, and worldwide in 16 languages. The novel was selected for the 2007 Booker Prize shortlist. In it, over the course of an evening in an outdoor Lahore cafe, a bearded Pakistani man called Changez (the Urdu name for Genghis) tells a nervous American stranger about his love affair with, and eventual abandonment of, America. A short story adapted from the novel called "Focus on the Fundamentals" appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of The Paris Review.