Exit West: A Novel
by Mohsin Hamid
Buy on AmazonOne of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE “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 “Moving, audacious, and indelibly human.” —Entertainment Weekly, “A” rating The New York Times bestselling novel: an astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands, from the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the forthcoming The Last White Man.…
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"Critics have rightly heaped praise on this slender treasure of a novel. It’s a tale of war and refugees and how we carry ourselves in the places we call home. It is also, powerfully, a love story. I read with a pen in hand, even when I read for pleasure, and my copy of Exit West is riddled with notes; more than once, I paused to scribble “lovely” next to passages such as this: “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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