The release date for the English version of 'Exit West' by
Mohsin Hamid is Mar 2017. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Two young people—the calm, reserved Saeed and the sensuous, fiercely independent Nadia—meet in a nation on the verge of civil war. They start a covert relationship, but the turmoil in their city quickly traps them in an early closeness. After it blows up, transforming known streets into a maze of bomb explosions and checkpoints, they start to hear rumours of doors—doors that, if used dangerously and at a cost, have the power to carry people very far away. Nadia and Saeed come to the conclusion that they are powerless as the violence intensifies. They locate a door and go through it, leaving their former life and their nation behind.
In Exit West, we follow these people as they struggle to cling to one another, to their history, and to their basic sense of self as they emerge into an unfamiliar and unsettling future. Richly personal and very creative, it is a timeless tale of bravery, love, and devotion that is entirely relevant to our day and age.