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In Exit West, Mohsin Hamid (author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist) provides a fascinating opportunity to walk in the shoes of two refugees. Saeed and Nadia's story begins in an unnamed city, possibly a futurist version of Lahore. World terrorism is at a heightened level and while personal losses can still devastate families there is a wider acceptance of danger and uncertainty in the world. Saeed and Nadia meet by chance at an evening course and in the beginning of the book their relationship i
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This is an incredible story about the arc of a couple, Saeed and Nadia, who meet in a war torn country that they are forced to flee from together, and migrate to far flung places while surviving the environment and the new versions of themselves. The writing is so fantastic, and the way the narration starts close and then pans to a distant view is sublime. The ending! Perfection.
The sense of style in this writing is just as I remember from his previous book, The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Soothing and drawing the reader in with all sorts of long and ongoing sentences, Hamid’s writing is almost trance-like. This book was strange and disturbing and somewhat confusing, but what I got from it was that it was all about immigrating and what a world might look like when we have all migrated so much that we lost our sense of place being something anyone owns. Definitely a book t
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The best book I read this year! A lot of emotion, an imaginative style, colors. I loved the characters and how life changed them.
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