num_pages: 231
description: In a country teetering on the brink of civil war two young people meetsensual 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 doorsdoors 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. 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.
language: English
title: Exit West
publisher: Riverhead