«Exit West»: Shortlisted for The Man Bookfer Prize 2017. Thrilling, urgent and gorgeously written by Mohsin Hamid.

En un país a punt d’esclatar una guerra civil, dos joves es troben. La Nadia, sensual i independent, i en Saeed, educat i de bones maneres. Inicien una història d’amor secreta fins que comença la guerra i es senten perduts. Els carrers de sempre es transformen en llocs desconeguts, plens de bombes, on la gent té por. És en aquest moment quan prenen la decisió de marxar, deixar el seu país, i dirigir-se cap a un futur incert. Una història d’amor narrada de manera molt íntima, on la lleialtat i la valentia son els protagonistes.

Harrowingly vivid. One of the year’s most significant literary works!

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 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.