Exit West
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
WINNER OF THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"A breathtaking novel…[that] arrives at an urgent time."...
FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"A breathtaking novel…[that] arrives at an urgent time."...
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WINNER OF THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"A breathtaking novel…[that] arrives at an urgent time." -NPR
"It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful." -Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review
"Moving, audacious, and indelibly human." -Entertainment Weekly, "A" rating
A New York Times bestseller, the astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands.
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. . . .
Exit West follows these remarkable 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.
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In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her. For many days. His name was Saeed and her name was Nadia and he had a beard, not a full beard, more a studiously maintained stubble, and she was always clad from the tips of her toes to the bottom of her jugular notch in a f lowing black robe. Back then people continued to enjoy the luxury of wearing more or less what they wanted to wear, clothing and hair wise, within certain bounds of course, and so these choices meant something.It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.
Saeed noticed that Nadia had a beauty mark on her neck, a tawny oval that sometimes, rarely but not never, moved with her pulse.
Not long after noticing this, Saeed spoke to Nadia for the first time. Their city had yet to experience any major fighting, just some shootings and the odd car bombing, felt in one s chest cavity as a subsonic vibration like those emitted by large loudspeakers at music concerts, and Saeed and Nadia had packed up their books and were leaving class.
In the stairwell he turned to her and said, Listen, would you like to have a coffee, and after a brief pause added, to make it seem less forward, given her conservative attire, in the cafeteria?
Nadia looked him in the eye. You don t say your evening prayers? she asked.
Saeed conjured up his most endearing grin. Not always. Sadly.
Her expression did not change.
So he persevered, clinging to his grin with the mounting desperation of a
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doomed rock climber: I think it s personal. Each of us has his own way. Or . . . her own way. Nobody s perfect. And, in any case
She interrupted him. I don t pray, she said. She continued to gaze at him steadily.
Then she said, Maybe another time.
He watched as she walked out to the student parking area and there, instead of covering her head with a black cloth, as he expected, she donned a black motorcycle helmet that had been locked to a scuffed-up hundred-ish cc trail bike, snapped down her visor, straddled her ride, and rode off, disappearing with a controlled rumble into the gathering dusk.
The next day, at work, Saeed found himself unable to stop thinking of Nadia. Saeed s employer was an agency that specialized in the placement of outdoor advertising. They owned billboards all around the city, rented others, and struck deals for further space with the likes of bus lines, sports stadiums, and proprietors of tall buildings.
The agency occupied both floors of a converted townhouse and had over a dozen employees. Saeed was among the most junior, but his boss liked him and had tasked him with turning around a pitch to a local soap company that had to go out by email before five. Normally Saeed tried to do copious amounts of online research and customize his presentations as much as possible. It s not a story if it doesn t have an audience, his boss was fond of saying, and for Saeed this meant trying to show a client that his firm truly understood their business, could really get under their skin and see things from their point of view.
But today, even though the pitch was important every pitch was important: the economy was sluggish from mounting unrest and one of the first costs clients seeme
She interrupted him. I don t pray, she said. She continued to gaze at him steadily.
Then she said, Maybe another time.
He watched as she walked out to the student parking area and there, instead of covering her head with a black cloth, as he expected, she donned a black motorcycle helmet that had been locked to a scuffed-up hundred-ish cc trail bike, snapped down her visor, straddled her ride, and rode off, disappearing with a controlled rumble into the gathering dusk.
The next day, at work, Saeed found himself unable to stop thinking of Nadia. Saeed s employer was an agency that specialized in the placement of outdoor advertising. They owned billboards all around the city, rented others, and struck deals for further space with the likes of bus lines, sports stadiums, and proprietors of tall buildings.
The agency occupied both floors of a converted townhouse and had over a dozen employees. Saeed was among the most junior, but his boss liked him and had tasked him with turning around a pitch to a local soap company that had to go out by email before five. Normally Saeed tried to do copious amounts of online research and customize his presentations as much as possible. It s not a story if it doesn t have an audience, his boss was fond of saying, and for Saeed this meant trying to show a client that his firm truly understood their business, could really get under their skin and see things from their point of view.
But today, even though the pitch was important every pitch was important: the economy was sluggish from mounting unrest and one of the first costs clients seeme
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Mohsin Hamid
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- Autor: Mohsin Hamid
- 2018, 256 Seiten, Maße: 20,1 x 12,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Riverhead Books
- ISBN-10: 0735212201
- ISBN-13: 9780735212206
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.03.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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WINNER OF THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE10 BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
FINALIST FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE, THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS, and THE KIRKUS AWARD
Hamid exploits fiction's capacity to elicit empathy and identification to imagine a better world. It is also a possible world. Exit West does not lead to utopia, but to a near future and the dim shapes of strangers that we can see through a distant doorway. All we have to do is step through it and meet them." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, The New York Times Book Review (cover)
In spare, crystalline prose, Hamid conveys the experience of living in a city under siege with sharp, stabbing immediacy. He shows just how swiftly ordinary life with all its banal rituals and routines can morph into the defensive crouch of life in a war zone. [and] how insidiously violence alters the calculus of daily life. By mixing the real and the surreal, and using old fairy-tale magic, Hamid has created a fictional universe that captures the global perils percolating beneath today s headlines. Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Lyrical and urgent, the globalist novel evokes the dreams and disillusionments that follow Saeed and Nadia .and peels away the dross of bigotry to expose the beauty of our common humanity. O, the Oprah Magazine
A beautiful and very detailed look at what it means to be an immigrant An incredible book. Sarah Jessica Parker on Read it Forward
A little like the eerily significant Margaret Atwood novel, this love story amid the rubble of violence, uncertainty, and modernity feels at once otherworldly and all too real. New York Magazine s The Strategist
"This is the best writing of Hamid's career Readers will find themselves going back and savoring each paragraph several times before
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moving on. He's that good. . . . Breathtaking. NPR.org
Nearly every page reflects the tangible impact of life during wartime not just the blood and gunsmoke of daily bombardments, but the quieter collateral damage that seeps in. The true magic of [Exit West] is how it manages to render it all in a narrative so moving, audacious, and indelibly human. Entertainment Weekly, A rating
Hamid rewrites the world as a place thoroughly, gorgeously, and permanently overrun by refugees and migrants. But, still, he depicts the world as resolutely beautiful and, at its core, unchanged. The novel feels immediately canonical, so firm and unerring is Hamid s understanding of our time and its most pressing questions. NewYorker.com
"No novel is really about the cliche called 'the human condition,' but good novels expose and interpret the particular condition of the humans in their charge, and this is what Hamid has achieved here. If in its physical and perilous immediacy Nadia and Saeed s condition is alien to the mass of us, Exit West makes a final, certain declaration of affinity: 'We are all migrants through time.' Washington Post
Skillful and panoramic from the outset... [A] meticulously crafted, ambitious story of many layers, many geopolitical realities, many lives and circumstances...Here is the world, he seems to be saying, the direction we re hurtling in. How are we going to mitigate the damage we ve done? The New York Review of Books
Like the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but set in the real world. You ll be hearing about it, so get into it now. TheSkimm
Spellbinding. Buzzfeed
Hamid graphically explores a fundamental and important ontological question: Is it possible for us to conceive of ourselves at all, except in juxtaposition to an other ?... What is remarkable about Hamid s narrative is that war is not, in fact, able to marginalize the precious mundanity of everyday life. Instead and herein lies Hamid s genius as a storyteller the mundanity, the minor joys of life, like bringing flowers to a lover, smoking a joint, and looking at stars, compete with the horrors of war. Los Angeles Times
In an era when powerful ruling groups often in the minority are gripped by a sense of religious and ethnic nativism, Mohsin offers these two, the millions they represent, and us, comfort: that plausible, desirable futures can be imagined, that new tribes may be formed, and that life will go on... If we are looking for the story of our time, one that can project a future that is both more bleak and more hopeful than that which we can yet envision, this novel is faultless. Boston Globe
[A] slender treasure of a novel. NPR's Book Concierge
"Terrifying, hopeful, and all too relevant." People Magazine
It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future This book blew the top off my head. It s at once terrifying and, in the end, oddly hopeful. Ayelet Waldman, New York Times Book Review
"If there is one book everyone should read ASAP, it is Mohsin Hamid s Exit West...Short, unsentimental, deeply intimate, and so very powerful." Goop
Spare and haunting, it s magical realism meets the all-too-real. W Magazine
Taut but haunting. Vanity Fair
"Powerfully evokes the violence and anxiety of lives lived under the drone-crossed sky. Time Magazine
Hamid s timely and spare new novel confronts the inevitability of mass global immigration, the unbroken cycle of violence and the indomitable human will to connect and love. Huffington Post
A great romance that is also a story of refugees; this couldn t be more timely. Flavorwire
Exit West is a compelling read that will make you think about the times we are living in right now. PopSugar
"Beautiful." The Rumpus
Eerily prescient. Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker.com
[A] thought experiment that pivots on the crucial figure of this century: the migrant Hamid s cautious, even fastidious prose makes the sudden flashes of social breakdown all the more affecting...Evading the lure of both the utopian and the dystopian, Exit West makes some rough early sketches of the world that must come if we (or is it you ?) are to avoid walling out the rest of the human race. Financial Times
Exit West operates on another plane Beautiful and poetic even at its most devastating. Book Riot
Raw, poetic, and frighteningly prescient. BBC.com
Timely and resonant. Publisher's Weekly, Top 10 Most-Anticipated Literary Fiction of 2017
Nearly every page reflects the tangible impact of life during wartime not just the blood and gunsmoke of daily bombardments, but the quieter collateral damage that seeps in. The true magic of [Exit West] is how it manages to render it all in a narrative so moving, audacious, and indelibly human. Entertainment Weekly, A rating
Hamid rewrites the world as a place thoroughly, gorgeously, and permanently overrun by refugees and migrants. But, still, he depicts the world as resolutely beautiful and, at its core, unchanged. The novel feels immediately canonical, so firm and unerring is Hamid s understanding of our time and its most pressing questions. NewYorker.com
"No novel is really about the cliche called 'the human condition,' but good novels expose and interpret the particular condition of the humans in their charge, and this is what Hamid has achieved here. If in its physical and perilous immediacy Nadia and Saeed s condition is alien to the mass of us, Exit West makes a final, certain declaration of affinity: 'We are all migrants through time.' Washington Post
Skillful and panoramic from the outset... [A] meticulously crafted, ambitious story of many layers, many geopolitical realities, many lives and circumstances...Here is the world, he seems to be saying, the direction we re hurtling in. How are we going to mitigate the damage we ve done? The New York Review of Books
Like the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but set in the real world. You ll be hearing about it, so get into it now. TheSkimm
Spellbinding. Buzzfeed
Hamid graphically explores a fundamental and important ontological question: Is it possible for us to conceive of ourselves at all, except in juxtaposition to an other ?... What is remarkable about Hamid s narrative is that war is not, in fact, able to marginalize the precious mundanity of everyday life. Instead and herein lies Hamid s genius as a storyteller the mundanity, the minor joys of life, like bringing flowers to a lover, smoking a joint, and looking at stars, compete with the horrors of war. Los Angeles Times
In an era when powerful ruling groups often in the minority are gripped by a sense of religious and ethnic nativism, Mohsin offers these two, the millions they represent, and us, comfort: that plausible, desirable futures can be imagined, that new tribes may be formed, and that life will go on... If we are looking for the story of our time, one that can project a future that is both more bleak and more hopeful than that which we can yet envision, this novel is faultless. Boston Globe
[A] slender treasure of a novel. NPR's Book Concierge
"Terrifying, hopeful, and all too relevant." People Magazine
It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future This book blew the top off my head. It s at once terrifying and, in the end, oddly hopeful. Ayelet Waldman, New York Times Book Review
"If there is one book everyone should read ASAP, it is Mohsin Hamid s Exit West...Short, unsentimental, deeply intimate, and so very powerful." Goop
Spare and haunting, it s magical realism meets the all-too-real. W Magazine
Taut but haunting. Vanity Fair
"Powerfully evokes the violence and anxiety of lives lived under the drone-crossed sky. Time Magazine
Hamid s timely and spare new novel confronts the inevitability of mass global immigration, the unbroken cycle of violence and the indomitable human will to connect and love. Huffington Post
A great romance that is also a story of refugees; this couldn t be more timely. Flavorwire
Exit West is a compelling read that will make you think about the times we are living in right now. PopSugar
"Beautiful." The Rumpus
Eerily prescient. Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker.com
[A] thought experiment that pivots on the crucial figure of this century: the migrant Hamid s cautious, even fastidious prose makes the sudden flashes of social breakdown all the more affecting...Evading the lure of both the utopian and the dystopian, Exit West makes some rough early sketches of the world that must come if we (or is it you ?) are to avoid walling out the rest of the human race. Financial Times
Exit West operates on another plane Beautiful and poetic even at its most devastating. Book Riot
Raw, poetic, and frighteningly prescient. BBC.com
Timely and resonant. Publisher's Weekly, Top 10 Most-Anticipated Literary Fiction of 2017
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