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Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

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Exit West won the L.A. Times Book Prize for Fiction and the Aspen Words Literary Prize, was a finalist for the Booker Prize, and was named one of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. Exit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.

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Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
ISBN-13
9780735212183
Topics
Migration and displacementLove and relationships amid warCivil war and conflictIdentity and belongingMagical realism

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