02065nam 22004093 450 991016495080332120230809222734.00-7352-1218-X(CKB)3710000001064335(MiAaPQ)EBC6041942(Au-PeEL)EBL6041942(OCoLC)1156166669(EXLCZ)99371000000106433520210901d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierExit West A Novel /Mohsin HamidEast Rutherford :Penguin Publishing Group,2017.©2017.1 online resource0-7352-1217-1 In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors--doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through... Exit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.RefugeesFictionRefugees813/.54FIC037000FIC051000FIC019000bisacshHamid Mohsin1971-1253820MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910164950803321Exit West2907428UNINA