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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 08/02/2018
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ISBN: 9780241979068
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
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Weight: 170g
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RRP: £8.99
Exit West
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SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
Coming soon as a major Netflix film - produced by Barack and Michelle Obama and starring Riz Ahmed
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
*A Barack Obama top ten book of 2017*
WINNER of the LA Times Prize for Fiction * WINNER of the Aspen Words Literary Prize
'Astonishing' Zadie Smith
'Stunning' Spectator
'Extraordinary' TLS
An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist
All over the world, doors are appearing.
They lead to other cities, other countries, other lives.
And in a city gripped by war, Nadia and Saeed are newly in love.
Hardly more than strangers, desperate to survive, they open a door and step through.
But the doors only go one way.
Once you leave, there is no going back.
'One of the year's most significant literary works' The New York Times
'A masterpiece' Michael Chabon
'Addictively readable and brilliantly written. Fantastic' Mail on Sunday
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
Shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Awards for Best Novel
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018 and finalist for the Neustadt Prize 2018
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 08/02/2018
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ISBN: 9780241979068
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
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Weight: 170g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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As with the very best literature, its crystalline readability fast eclipses its topicality
Mail on Sunday
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[A] devastating portrait of victims of war, creating a singular parable about modernity, migration and the individual's place in the world
The Guardian
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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
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No conventional love story. [An] exceptionally moving and powerful novel
The Guardian
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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
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Powerful, vivid, poignant... Hamid is the master
Sunday Times
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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
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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
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Imaginative, inventive, graceful... Hamid exploits fiction's capacity to elicit empathy and imagine a better world
New York Times Book Review
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A subtle and moving examination of how human relationships endure and falter under unimaginable pressures. Exit West is an instant classic
GQ
