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World Book Club: Mohsin Hamid: Exit West

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Mohsin Hamid

02/07/2022 GMT

Mohsin Hamid: Exit West

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Mohsin Hamid's profound meditation on love, hope and the psychology of exile

Mohsin Hamid's profound meditation on love, hope and the psychology of exile.

In the season celebrating The Exuberance of Youth, World Book Club talks to Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid about his compelling novel, Exit West.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Exit West features Nadia and Saeed, two ordinary young people, attempting to fall in love in a world turned upside down. Civil war is driving them from their homeland and they join the great outpouring of people fleeing a collapsing city, hoping against hope, to find their place in the world. Then something extraordinary happens: doors start appearing, all over the world. They lead to other cities, other countries, other lives. But once you leave there’s no coming back. Readers from around the world put their questions to Mohsin Hamid about this dazzling book.

(Picture: Mohsin Hamid. Photo credit: Jillian Edelstein.)

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