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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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.

  3. Mar 10, 2017 · EXIT WEST By Mohsin Hamid 231 pp. Riverhead Books. $26. You own a house or rent an apartment. You live with your family or by yourself. You wake in the morning and drink your coffee or tea.

  4. Mar 10, 2017 · An old man from Brazil crosses to Amsterdam, meets another old man, and wordlessly falls in love. While contemplating suicide, a man in England comes across a portal to Namibia, where he remakes ...

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.