Promotional Information
An unforgettable love story about how we live now - from the
bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author of The Reluctant
Fundamentalist.
About the Author
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.
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 *
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 *
