Exit West
February 12, 2018 9:22 AM - by Mohsin Hamid - Subscribe
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 is still on my to-read pile, but I really enjoyed listening to Mohsin Hamid's conversation with Terry Gross last spring when it was published.
posted by Anita Bath at 11:09 AM on February 12, 2018
posted by Anita Bath at 11:09 AM on February 12, 2018
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The line about how “when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind” positively floored me.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 9:25 AM on February 12, 2018 [3 favorites]