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Mohsin Hamid

Exit West

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From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, an astonishingly timely love story that brilliantly imagines the forces that transform ordinary people into refugees — and the impossible choices that follow — as they're driven from their homes to the uncertain embrace of new lands.
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Time Magazine, the New York Times, Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Huffington Post

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…
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  • nataliaescortesshared an impression6 years ago
    💡Learnt A Lot

    An intriguing reading that shows the life of two lovers destined to live isolated

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    • Ellen Shubichshared an impression6 years ago
      🎯Worthwhile

      Exit West, as in the other books I have read by Mohsin Hamid, deals with present day issues that use the novel genre to
      draw the reader into a more personal, caring understanding of problems faced by people in varied conditions. This one is about refugees. He uses an artifice, 'the doors,' to move the
      couple we get to know from one country to another as we read about the difficulties (physical, emotional, etc.) they face and the strains on their relationship as they grow apart and define their futures.

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      • Marina Zalashared an impression4 years ago
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          And you can lie on your back and look up and see the Milky Way.
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            On the weekend she went at dawn to her bank and stood in a line that was already quite long, waiting for the bank to open, but when it opened the line became a throng and she had no choice but to surge forward like everyone else, and there in the unruly crowd she was groped from behind, someone pushing his hand down her buttocks and between her legs, and trying to penetrate her with his finger, failing because he was outside the multiple fabrics of her robe and her jeans and her underclothes, but coming as close to succeeding as possible under the circumstances
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            • Santos Abatovhas quoted4 years ago
              Saeed noticed that Nadia had a beauty mark on her neck, a tawny oval that sometimes, rarely but not never, moved with her pulse.
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