Exit West

By Mohsin Hamid

Subjects: Refugees -- Fiction, Fiction, cultural heritage, Civil wars, Novela romántica, Refugiados -- Ficción, Literature, 18.07 English literature outside Europe and the USA, Love stories, Réfugiés, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2017-03-26, General, Large type books, Relations hommes-femmes, FICTION / Literary, New York Times bestseller, Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Political, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, political, 813/.54, FICTION, Refugees--fiction, Romance fiction, Literary, romance, Choice (Psychology), Ps3558.a42169 e95 2017, Roman, New York Times reviewed, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Man-woman relationships, Fic037000 fic051000 fic019000, Political, Refugees, magic realist fiction, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Ficción, Refugiados, Cuentos de amor

Description: "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. [This book] follows the couple as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are."--From regular print book.