PENGUIN Exit West: A Novel

Thrilling and crasping! The book had a very realistic feeling to it and the characters were so real that you could've known them personally. Definitely a must read!

A mesmerising, fast read, Exit West has two charming and complicated young people who have to migrate to live, not in the usual way over borders, but through magical doors. They feel real, as do their emotions, falling in and out of love is described very well here, and also delicately depicted is the sorrow that comes from a loss of your identity through the loss of your birth place.Overall, recommended to anyone who finds its premise intriguing and wants a slim yet meaningful read. Glad this book can stir up some decent discussion about immigration amidst the loads of xenophobia polluting the political sphere.Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

A wonderful, poignant tale of two people caught in today's too-familiar dangerous circumstances of political upheavals and terrorism, with strangely strong (and at the same time, fragile) ties of love binding them through times of turmoil. The novel is no doubt prescient in today's times of Brexit and Refugee crisis unfolding on the global stage, but what touched me was the narrative of migration, love, familial ties and human condition that news broadcasts and policy wonks seldom have time to ponder.Go for it, there is no book more timely than this one.

Exit West is extraordinary in its story telling. Hamid offers you mellowness in a world gone wrong---the world we find ourselves in today, in which neither east nor west offer exits. Saeed and Nadia teach us what post truth does not.And yet Hamid tells his story in a world where politics, civilization itself, rides on nationalism -- vigilantism --fundamentalism. There are no givens anymore, nor freedoms, nor choices. But as Hamid ends his story, the deserts in Chile may still revel in the stars.Coetzee had begun the refugee/immigrant story in the boyhood of Jesus. These stories have only begun.Truly extraordinary book from Mohsin Hamid.

Starts off as a war time story and the plot is quite gripping for the first half of the story. Plot and character development is quite good in this part.Just when you are starting to get engrossed, it suddenly goes off into a complete tangent - marrying a dystopian future with the story of war refugees. I personally lost the plot completely and simply couldn't figure out what the author wanted to do.If I could be a time traveler, I would go back and Stop myself from buying this.