Exit West

FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

10 BEST BOOKS OF 2017,?NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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WINNER OF THE?L.A. TIMES?BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE

?A breathtaking novel?[that] arrives at an urgent time.? ?NPR
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?It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future? At once terrifying and ? oddly hopeful.? ?Ayelet Waldman,?The New York Times Book Review
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?Moving, audacious, and indelibly human.? ?Entertainment Weekly, ?A? rating
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A?New York Times?bestseller, the astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands.
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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.