Exit West: A Novel

Two people fall in love in a city on the edge of civil war, and when the violence makes staying impossible, they step through one of the mysterious doors appearing across the world and find themselves somewhere else entirely. Hamid uses magical realism to say something urgent and true about displacement and what we owe each other. Short, precise, and quietly devastating.

"It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and, in the end, oddly hopeful."
Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review from bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Used Hardcover
240 Pages
Published by Riverhead Books, 2017
ISBN 9780735212176