Title: Exit West
Subtitle: A Novel
Description: "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.  [This book] follows the couple 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."--From regular print book.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships, FICTION, Cultural Heritage, magic realist fiction, Civil wars, Political, romance, Literary, Love stories, Refugees, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Literary, Fiction, political, Fiction, cultural heritage, Fiction, romance, contemporary, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2017-03-26, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Choice (Psychology), 18.07 English literature outside Europe and the USA, Romance fiction, Fantasy fiction, Réfugiés, Roman, Relations hommes-femmes, Large type books, Cuentos de amor, Ficción, Refugiados, Novela romántica, General, Literature, Refugees -- Fiction, Refugiados -- Ficción, Refugees--fiction, Ps3558.a42169 e95 2017, 813/.54, Fic037000 fic051000 fic019000