Exit West

A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick - Booker Gems THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE 'Astonishing' Zadie Smith 'Stunning' Spectator 'Extraordinary' TLS An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist All over the world, doors are appearing. They lead to other cities, other countries, other lives. And in a city gripped by war, Nadia and Saeed are newly in love. Hardly more than strangers, desperate to survive, they open a door and step through. But the doors only go one way. Once you leave, there is no going back. *Coming soon as a major Netflix film - produced by Michelle and Barack Obama and starring Riz Ahmed* 'One of the year's most significant literary works' The New York Times 'A masterpiece' Michael Chabon 'Addictively readable and brilliantly written. Fantastic' Mail on Sunday

”Exit West” er Mohsin Hamids gribende roman om migration, kærlighed og håbet om en bedre fremtid. Nomineret til Man Booker Prize i 2017. Nadia er en selvstændig, humoristisk og storrygende pige. Saeed er hendes blide, generte modstykke. De mødes en stjerneklar nat på deres balkoner. Herfra starter deres fælles kærlighedshistorie. Imens er deres by ved at falde sammen i ruiner og vold. På deres flugt fra byen støder de pludselig på mystiske døre, der opstår undervejs. Mohsin Hamid modtog flere litteraturpriser og nomineringer for ”Exit West”, der også var på Barack Obamas top 10-liste over bøger fra 2017.

”Exit West” er Mohsin Hamids gribende roman om migration, kærlighed og håbet om en bedre fremtid. Nomineret til Man Booker Prize i 2017. Nadia er en selvstændig, humoristisk og storrygende pige. Saeed er hendes blide, generte modstykke. De mødes en stjerneklar nat på deres balkoner. Herfra starter deres fælles kærlighedshistorie. Imens er deres by ved at falde sammen i ruiner og vold. På deres flugt fra byen støder de pludselig på mystiske døre, der opstår undervejs. Mohsin Hamid modtog flere litteraturpriser og nomineringer for ”Exit West”, der også var på Barack Obamas top 10-liste over bøger fra 2017.

WINNER OF THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "A breathtaking novel...[that] arrives at an urgent time." -NPR "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 ... oddly hopeful." -Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review "Moving, audacious, and indelibly human." -Entertainment Weekly, "A" rating A New York Times bestseller, the astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands. 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 remarkable 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. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.

WINNER OF THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "A breathtaking novel...[that] arrives at an urgent time." -NPR "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 ... oddly hopeful." -Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review "Moving, audacious, and indelibly human." -Entertainment Weekly, "A" rating A New York Times bestseller, the astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands. 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 remarkable 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. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.

EXIT WEST er en eventyrlig og uforglemmelig fortælling om kærlighed, loyalitet og mod. Den frigjorte Nadia og den blide, indadvendte Saeed mødes i et land, der i stigende grad præges af konflikt. Mens de forelsker sig, eskalerer volden dag for dag, og pludselig står Saeed og Nadia over for en livsomvæltende beslutning – og en lang rejse – da gådefulde døre begynder at dukke op rundt omkring i verden. Det bliver starten på en magisk kærlighedshistorie om flugt.