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Exit West

By: Mohsin Hamid
Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid
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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 star-gazing.

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.

'Mixing the real and the surreal, using old fairy-tale magic... Compelling, crystalline, unnervingly dystopian' Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

©2017 Mohsin Hamid (P)2018 Penguin Audio City Life Dystopian Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Islamic Heritage Literary Fiction Magical Realism Metaphysical & Visionary Political Psychological Science Fiction Urban Heartfelt Magic

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