From the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, an astonishing new novel.
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, Moth Smoke, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Discontent and its Civilisations. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he has since lived between Lahore, London and New York. His next novel, Exit West, will be published by Hamish Hamilton in spring 2017.
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*
Immediately canonical
*New Yorker*
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 but
not yet at war, two young people meet and fall in love. They
pretend not to hear the sound of bombs getting closer every night.
But one day soon they will have to escape this place, running for
their lives, searching for their place in the world.
*Penguin*
Impressive... Exit West confirms Hamid's reputation as a brilliant
ventriloquist who is deeply engaged with the most pressing issues
of our time
*Guardian*
Powerful... Hamid unfolds the disintegration of civic life and the
couple's poignant intimacy with vivid, economical strokes. Hamid is
the master of the illuminating metaphor
*Sunday Times*
Wry [and] intelligent... Part pared-down romance, part 21st-century
fable for a world of porous borders, Exit West is a thought
experiment that pivots on the crucial figure of this century: the
migrant
*Financial Times*
A subtle and moving examination of how human relationships endure
and falter under unimaginable pressures. Exit West is an instant
classic
*GQ*
Breathlessly relevant... Hamid's book could hardly be more timely;
it's addictively readable and brilliantly written to boot
*Mail on Sunday*
Astonishing
*Zadie Smith*
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*
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*
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*
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