Bienvenidos a Occidente / Exit West (Hardcover)

from markm2315

A novel that explores the idea that our lives are composed of our relationships, one with another, but also with the time and places in which we reside. And that, as the author says, we are all migrants in time. In this novel the characters are magically able to migrate through space despite poli...

from browner56

Few issues are more relevant or socially divisive in today's world than immigration. As the second decade of the current century comes to an end, tales of building barrier walls and incarcerating people seeking to escape the repression and violence of their homelands are seemingly endless. Howeve...

from streamsong

Saeed and Nadia are young adults, working in a city in a non-specified Middle Eastern country. As their relationship grows, so does the war. The city they live in crumbles: bombings and killings on the streets, lack of water and infrastructure and their jobs disappear. They fear the indiscriminat...

from steve02476

I think I liked the first part of the book better than the second part, when the magical realism "doors" started popping up - but I enjoyed that part also, more than I expected. He's a great storyteller and I became very fond of the characters.

from icolford

Early in Mohsin Hamid's challenging, sometimes brutal, and often profoundly moving novel, Exit West, as we are getting to know the two main characters Nadia and Saeed, we are abruptly lifted out of their story and taken to Australia, where a woman asleep in her bedroom in a Sydney suburb does not...