This is one way to understand the frequent awkward insertions of sociological and historical information about Pakistan that dot the text; they may be for an uninitiated Western reader of the novel, but they can also be read as part of Changez's strategy of instructing but also unsettling the intradiegetic listener, who has only a basic knowledge of the culture into which he has stumbled.

XREF: Connects to narrative theories about unreliable or manipulative narrators who control information flow, and postcolonial literature aimed at Western audiences.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 913