# Moth Smoke

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- Book: [Moth Smoke](https://www.bookquiver.com/mohsin-hamid/moth-smoke) ([Moth Smoke.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mohsin-hamid/moth-smoke.md))
- Authors: [Mohsin Hamid](https://www.bookquiver.com/mohsin-hamid)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-914-5
- Published: 2011-05-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In Lahore, Daru Shezad is a junior banker with a hashish habit. When his old friend Ozi moves back to Pakistan, Daru wants to be happy for him. Ozi has everything: a beautiful wife and child, an expensive foreign education - and a corrupt father who bankrolls his lavish lifestyle. As jealousy sets in, Daru's life slowly unravels. He loses his job. Starts lacing his joints with heroin. Becomes involved with a criminally-minded rickshaw driver. And falls in love with Ozi's lonely wife. But how low can Daru sink? Is he guilty of the crime he finds himself on trial for?