- Booker Prize 2017 · Shortlist
Exit West
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid (born 1971)
English editions
Written in EnglishExit West
Riverhead Books · United States · 27 February 2018 · Paperback · 256 pages
Exit West
Hamish Hamilton · United Kingdom · 2 March 2017
Exit West
Riverhead Books · United States · 7 March 2017 · Hardcover · 240 pages
Exit West
Penguin · United Kingdom · 8 February 2018 · Paperback · 240 pages
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Saeed and Nadia meet in a classroom in a city crowded with refugees, where war has not yet broken out in the open but every night brings bombs closer, along with curfews and executions. As the fighting between militants and the state spreads, they fall in love, and word goes round of black doors hidden around the city that open onto other places. After violence reaches Saeed's family, the couple pass through one, joining migrants who move from an overcrowded camp on Mykonos to an empty London mansion full of other newcomers and on to California. In each place their bond is strengthened and strained by the search for food, shelter and belonging, and by locals who wish they would simply disappear.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Migration, Love, Speculative (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Greece, United Kingdom, United States
- First published
- 2017
- Author's age
- 46 when first published
- ISBN
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9780735212176 (Riverhead Books, United States)
9780241979068 (Penguin, United Kingdom)
9780735212206 (Riverhead Books, United States)
- More
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