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Emily May rated it really liked it
Barry Pierce
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did not like it
about 3 years ago
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I rarely ever do this, but I'm rating and reviewing this even though I haven't finished it. I just cannot continue. Exit West is one of the most bitterly disappointing and downright awful novels I have read in a long while.
The novel begins with Nadia and Saeed, a couple liv ...more
The novel begins with Nadia and Saeed, a couple liv ...more
Maxwell
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it was amazing
over 3 years ago
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I want to shove this book into everyone's hands and say, "READ IT." Undoubtedly the best book I've read so far this year and one of the best I will probably read in 2017. Hamid's writing is lush and evocative and so, so beautiful. The story of immigration is incredibly impor
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Ariel
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really liked it
over 3 years ago
Very fascinatingly, I think I would have liked this book more if I had never read the synopsis.
The synopsis makes it sound like we're going to have two lovers who are in a city that is becoming a war zone and then discover magical doors that lead them far away and it's hard ...more
The synopsis makes it sound like we're going to have two lovers who are in a city that is becoming a war zone and then discover magical doors that lead them far away and it's hard ...more
Larry H
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it was amazing
over 3 years ago
Diane S ☔
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really liked it
over 3 years ago
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4+. We need more books like this, or no, maybe that's wrong, what we need are more readers of books like this. The country it takes place is unnamed, but one part makes it sound as if it is in Asia somewhere. A country under siege by opposing parties, a country at war with i
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Snotchocheez
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liked it
over 3 years ago
2.5 stars
What started out to be a gorgeously haunting look at life in a Middle East city at the brink of civil war turned ponderous and perplexing by the end of Mohsin Hamid's slim novel Exit West.
In an unnamed city in an unnamed Middle Eastern country (not unlike the sim ...more
What started out to be a gorgeously haunting look at life in a Middle East city at the brink of civil war turned ponderous and perplexing by the end of Mohsin Hamid's slim novel Exit West.
In an unnamed city in an unnamed Middle Eastern country (not unlike the sim ...more
Adam Dalva
rated it
it was amazing
over 1 year ago
I really loved this book, and can say without hyperbole that it accomplishes one of - or in my opinion, THE - main goal of fiction: it generates empathy that allows us to better understand our world. The story here is a close allegory of the contemporary migrant experience,
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Sean Barrs
rated it
it was ok
over 2 years ago
Exit West had the potential to be the greatest novel published in the last ten years. I don’t say such things liberally; it really did have a certain power due to it being so politically conscious, though somehow it failed to deliver what it could have done.
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Hannah Greendale
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really liked it
about 3 years ago
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booker-prize-nominee
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