Mohsin Hamid’s novel to be given to all St Andrews undergraduates (Scotland)

"Mohsin Hamid's acclaimed novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist is to be required summer reading for all new students at one of Britain's leading universities. The University of St Andrews is gifting a copy of the 2007 Man Booker Prize-shortlisted work to every one of its 1500 new undergraduates in a new initiative designed to offer students a common topic for discussion and focus energies on reading and intellectual debate. The scheme was conceived by University Principal Dr Louise Richardson and Jonathan Taylor, chair of the Booker Prize Foundation who are generously supporting the project. Each year a different work from the prize shortlist will be chosen to send to all St Andrews intending undergraduate"