Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
One of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyFINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
"It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future... At once terrifying and ... oddly hopeful." --Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review
"Moving, audacious, and indelibly human." --Entertainment Weekly, "A" rating
The New York Times bestselling novel: an astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands, from the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the forthcoming The Last White Man.
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.
Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, both finalists for the Man Booker Prize, are among Mohsin Hamid's international bestsellers. Moth Smoke, his first novel, won the Betty Trask Prize and was a PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award finalist. His pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and other publications, including a collection of them called Discontent and Its Civilizations. He is based in Pakistan's Lahore.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780735212206 |
| ISBN 10 | 0735212201 |
| Title | Exit West |
| Author | Mohsin Hamid |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2018-02-27 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Commended for Kirkus Prize (Fiction) 2017 |
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