ONE OF BARACK OBAMA S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2017 WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD, THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD, AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night. This is Saeed. He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for star-gazing. This is their story: a love story, but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow. Saeed and Nadia are falling in love, and their city is falling apart. Here is a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it. Exit West is a heartfelt and radical act of hope – a novel to restore your faith in humanity and in the power of imagination.
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
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n a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, Saeed and Nadia share a cup of coffee, and their story begins. It will be a love story but also a story about war and a world in crisis, about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow. Before too long, the time will come for Nadia and Saeed to leave their homeland. When the streets are no longer useable and all options are exhausted, this young couple will join the great outpouring of those fleeing a collapsing city, hoping against hope, looking for their place in the world . . .
