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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 ...
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.
May 24, 2020 · “Exit West” by Mohsin Hamid is a tale about migration, through places, time, cultures. The story of the main protagonists, Nadia and Saeed, explores many intersecting themes including the position of women living independently in a patriarchal society, a portrayal of destruction and mass violence caused by wars, the meaning of home, of belonging, of being a refugee, migrant through time ...
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.
Exit West. Author: Mohsin Hamid. Genre: Magical realism. Publication Date: 2017. Introduction. Exit West tells the story of Saeed and Nadia, two lovers whose city is torn apart when militants overthrow their country’s government. As the destruction intensifies, news spreads of magical doors to locations around the world.
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 ...
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 ...
