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Mar 7, 2017 · Mohsin Hamid. 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 ...
Jul 9, 2022 · Written by Jo Hamya. Published July 9, 2022. Further reading. Booker Prize nominated dystopian fiction. Romance books nominated for the Booker Prize. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017, Exit West proposes a world in which people are able to travel from country to country through a system of doors.
May 24, 2020 · “Exit West” by Mohsin Hamid is a tale about migration, through places, time, cultures. The story of the main protagonists, Nadia and Saeed, explores many intersecting themes including the position of women living independently in a patriarchal society, a portrayal of destruction and mass violence caused by wars, the meaning of home, of belonging, of being a refugee, migrant through time ...
Exit West is a novel written by British-Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid, published in 2017. The narrative follows the story of Nadia and Saeed, two young lovers living in an unnamed city on the brink of civil war. As their city becomes increasingly dangerous, the couple discovers the existence of mysterious doors that serve as portals to ...
Mar 1, 2017 · Mohsin Hamid's new novel imagines a country, never specified, swollen with refugees from an ongoing conflict — and a series of mysterious doors that appear, offering escape, but also displacement.
Mar 17, 2017 · Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West is a disconcertingly timely novel, one about migration, refugees, terrorism, and the rise of jingoistic nativism in the West. If it were cheaply done or sentimental, it ...
Feb 8, 2018 · Astonishing - Zadie Smith. Immediately canonical - New Yorker. Part pared-down romance, part 21st-century fable, Exit West is a thought experiment that pivots on the crucial figure of this century: the migrant - Financial Times. Exit West packs such an emotional wallop you will be thinking about it for days afterwards.
