Exit West  (English, Hardcover, Hamid Mohsin)

I first heard of Mohsin Hamid when the adapted movie for The Reluctant Fundamentalist came out. I had wanted to get my hands on a copy of his book since then, and Exit West is my first go at his work.

You have probably heard of Exit West already. The book has garnered critical acclaim for portraying what really goes through a refugee’s mind. Everyone from The Guardian to Vox has covered it.
Exit West begins, simply enough, as a love story between Nadia and Saeed. Hamid makes even a simple l...

It’s been close to 48 hours since I put down Mohsin Hamid’s ‘Exit West’ after finishing it and I still think of the book in more ways than one. This genre-defying book is a lot more layered than what one would expect and is definitely a book that requires a little more attention than the author’s previous offerings.

Nadia and Saeed are the two protagonists in the book and the story that starts off in an unnamed country with the ‘romance’ between Nadia and Saeed traverses through Myrkanos, L...

Fast paced story with an anti climax. It does offer some insight into the the human existence, thought process of war torn countries