One of the New York Times Book Review: Best Books of 2017
**SHORTLISTED FOR 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE**
Discover the unforgettable novel picked among 2017's most anticipated books by the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Buzzfeed, New York Times and many more...
An extraordinary story of love and hope, travelling from the Middle East to London and beyond, from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Nadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people, attempting to do an extraordinary thing - to fall in love - in a world turned upside down. Theirs will be a love story but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow, of a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it.
Civil war has come to the city which Nadia and Saeed call home. Before long they will need to leave their motherland behind - when the streets are no longer useable and the unknown is safer than the known. They will join the great outpouring of people fleeing a collapsing city, hoping against hope, looking for their place in the world . . .
Praise for Exit West and Mohsin Hamid:
Writing in spare, crystalline prose, Hamid conveys the experience of living in a city under siege with sharp, stabbing immediacy - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
A love story as spare, haunting and spiritually powerful as a haiku. All my life I will remember Nadia and Saeed, their humanity against a surreal, broken landscape. Exit West is Hamid's finest book - Kiran Desai, author of The Inheritance of Loss
Imaginative, inventive, graceful... Hamid exploits fiction's capacity to elicit empathy and imagine a better world - New York Times Book Review
A subtle and moving examination of how human relationships endure and falter under unimaginable pressures. Exit West is an instant classic - GQ Impressive
... Exit West confirms Hamid's reputation as a brilliant ventriloquist who is deeply engaged with the most pressing issues of our time - Andrew Motion (Book of the Week), Guardian
Astonishing - Zadie Smith
Immediately canonical - New Yorker
Part pared-down romance, part 21st-century fable, Exit West is a thought experiment that pivots on the crucial figure of this century: the migrant - Financial Times
Exit West packs such an emotional wallop you will be thinking about it for days afterwards. For Hamid is not only telling a story, he is asking what sort of a world we want to live in. - Editor's Choice, the Bookseller
It's a terrific, beautifully constructed, important novel of our time. This is what we expect fiction to do: to examine our age but also to cast an eye on the past and - very brilliantly in this case - on the future too. I love it. - Mirza Waheed
Exit West is a masterpiece. It stretches the boundaries of the real just enough to make a point about the state of immigrants and refugees in the contemporary world. But it's very much grounded in reality. It's a beautiful book. - Michael Chabon
Mohsin Hamid is one of the most talented and formally audacious writers of his generation - Telegraph A man born to write - Dave Eggers
The voice of a changing continent. A writer at the top of his game - Metro
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