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Exit West :A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems
Exit West :A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems
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Published:
8 February, 2018
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A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick - Booker Gems
THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
'Astonishing' Zadie Smith
'Stunning' Spectator
'Extraordinary' TLS
An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist
All over the world, doors are appearing.
They lead to other cities, other countries, other lives.
And in a city gripped by war, Nadia and Saeed are newly in love.
Hardly more than strangers, desperate to survive, they open a door and step through.
But the doors only go one way.
Once you leave, there is no going back.
*Coming soon as a major Netflix film - produced by Michelle and Barack Obama and starring Riz Ahmed*
'One of the year's most significant literary works' The New York Times
'A masterpiece' Michael Chabon
'Addictively readable and brilliantly written. Fantastic' Mail on Sunday
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780241979068 |
| ISBN10 | 0241979064 |
| Number Of Pages | 240 |
| Item Weight | 173 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 198 x 15 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
As with the very best literature, its crystalline readability fast eclipses its topicality * Mail on Sunday *
[A] devastating portrait of victims of war, creating a singular parable about modernity, migration and the individual's place in the world * The Guardian *
A deceptively simple conceit turns a timely novel about a couple fleeing a civil war into a profound meditation on the psychology of exile. A novel that fuses the real with the surreal - perhaps the most faithful way to convey the tremulous political fault lines of our interconnected planet * The New York Times *
No conventional love story. [An] exceptionally moving and powerful novel * The Guardian *
Publisher's description. In an unnamed city swollen by refugees, two young people fall in love. One day soon they will have to leave their homeland, running for their lives, searching for their place in the world. * Penguin *
Powerful, vivid, poignant... Hamid is the master * Sunday Times *
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
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 *
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Author's Bio
Mohsin Hamid writes regularly for the New York Times, the Guardian and the New York Review of Books, and is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), Moth Smoke, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Discontents and Its Civilizations. Born and raised mostly in Lahore, he has since also lived in London and New York.