Exit West

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2017

WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD, THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD, AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE

This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour

and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night.

This is Saeed. He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for star-gazing.

This is their story: a love story, but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow. Saeed and Nadia are falling in love, and their city is falling apart. Here is a world in crisis and two human beings

travelling through it. Exit West is a heartfelt and radical act of hope - a novel to restore your

faith in humanity and in the power of imagination.

One of the year s most significant literary works - The New York Times

Powerful, vivid, poignant... Hamid is the master-Sunday Times

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

Astonishing -Zadie Smith

Immediately canonical - New Yorker