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Exit West

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Exit West

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
by Mohsin Hamid

  • Publication Date: February 27, 2018
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Riverhead Books
  • ISBN-10: 0735212201
  • ISBN-13: 9780735212206