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Exit West
- Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Exit West written and read by Mohsin Hamid.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent, with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night.
This is Saeed. He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for stargazing.
This is their story: a love story, but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow. Saeed and Nadia are falling in love, and their city is falling apart. Here is a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it. Exit West is a heartfelt and radical act of hope - a novel to restore your faith in humanity and in the power of imagination.
Critic reviews
"Mixing the real and the surreal, using old fairy-tale magic.... Compelling, crystalline, unnervingly dystopian." (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)
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- B. Hockley
- 05-01-21
An important & prophetic book for this decade?
How will refugees fare in the disruption of the coming decades? This personal story of two refugees fleeing war in an unnamed country for a better life in the West illustrates the economic, social and political pressures they and the populations they join might face as well as the universal struggles associated with being a human being living ones life.
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- Heppie
- 26-03-18
Rather a strange story
What did you like best about Exit West? What did you like least?
I found this a difficult book to get into, and realised that it was somewhat fanciful. The narrator (although also the author) did not read it well, as it came across very stilted. I've managed to get hold of a library book to read it as well as it is one we're doing for our book club. Hoping it might be better read rather than listened to.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
struggling to answer this question...
What didn’t you like about Mohsin Hamid’s performance?
The stilted way he spoke
If this book were a film would you go see it?
no
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- Khanitez
- 19-07-18
A Tale of Two Halves
I enjoyed the first half of the book more than the second half. It is almost two different tales intertwined together by two common characters. The second half did not feel real. The audio by the author was great.
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- polly geltser
- 14-03-20
Great
Opens the heart and the mind, as great art should. An important and sensitive point of view of our rapidly changing world. Thank you
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- Jon B
- 31-05-22
Interesting start but tailed off
Good start with mixture of vivid description and high concept fantasy but did not maintain narrative tension
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- Family Strudel
- 02-02-20
Beautiful book and amazing to hear the author
This is an amazing book, with beautiful language and highly original images and ideas.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-08-19
simple and beautiful
magical fable of migration crisis we face today. simple and beautifully narrated love story. enjoyed!
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-06-23
A bit of an underwhelming finish
The beginning piqued interest for sure
The trauma bonding and the migration to/from different lives —amazing execution in the story
But as it reached its climax it fell very quickly and dramatically
Almost like at the tail end of the book the author decided he no longer wanted to put in the same effort
The pacing changed, in-depth focus on characters we did not know that didn’t add to plot line increased
It feels like wasted potentials
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- RebeccaL
- 08-12-18
Poetic dystopia
Beautiful, mysterious and tender. Poetic dystopia with a magical realism grounded in our world and the way it is changing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-12-21
Beautifully written
Written so well and read meaningfully and relaxing to listen to enjoyed it very much would recommend
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