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Exit West Pocket Book – August 25, 2021

French Edition by Mohsin Hamid (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars 18,641 ratings
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Une grande ville au bord de la guerre civile, quelque part au Moyen-Orient. Saïd y rencontre Nadia, une jeune femme indépendante et déterminée. Jour après jour, les explosions, les échanges de tirs et les points de contrôle sauvages transforment un peu plus la vie des habitants en enfer. Nadia et Saïd doivent se cacher pour vivre leur passion naissante, mais l'escalade de la violence finit de les transformer en prisonniers et les pousse à tout tenter pour partir, jusqu'à emprunter l'une de ces portes mystérieuses dont on dit qu'elles permettent de s’échapper vers des ailleurs...

Fable à la fois contemporaine et intemporelle, histoire poignante sur fond d'exil et de crise migratoire, Exit West prouve qu’un livre inspiré d’un sujet d'actualité n'exclut pas la poésie ni même la magie.

Le roman de Mohsin Hamid se lit avant tout comme un poème d’amour, porté par une écriture alerte, flamboyante. Raoul Mbog, Télérama.

Une prose superbe. Raphaëlle Leyris, Le Monde des livres.

Traduit de l’anglais (Pakistan) par Bernard Cohen.

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  6. ISBN-10
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Mohsin Hamid est né en 1971 à Lahore, au Pakistan, et a vécu à Londres, à New York et en Californie. Ses deux premiers romans, Partir en fumée (prix Betty Trask et finaliste du prix PEN/Hemingway en 2000) et L’intégriste malgré lui (finaliste du Man Booker Prize en 2007 et adapté au cinéma par Mira Nair en 2012), se sont vendus à plus d’un million d’exemplaires dans le monde et ont été traduits dans plus d’une trentaine de langues. De nouveau établi à Lahore depuis quelques années, il contribue régulièrement au New York Times, au Guardian, au New Yorker ou encore à la revue Granta. Son troisième roman, Comment s’en mettre plein les poches en Asie mutante, lui a valu d’être cité aux États-Unis comme « l’un des auteurs les plus inventifs et doués de sa génération » et fera l’objet d’une adaptation au cinéma par Guillermo Arriaga. Son dernier roman, Exit West, a été cité par Barack Obama comme faisant partie de ses 12 livres préférés de 2017.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ LGF
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 25, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ French
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 2253259454
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-2253259459
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.37 x 0.39 x 7.01 inches
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Mohsin Hamid is the author of five novels -- Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Exit West, and The Last White Man -- and a book of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations.

His writing has been translated into forty languages, featured on bestseller lists, and adapted for the cinema.

Born in Lahore, he has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.

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Customers find the book excellently executed, with poetic prose and a great conceptual framework for understanding immigration. Moreover, the characters are wonderfully developed, particularly Nadia and Saeed, and the story illuminates sympathetically the lives of its protagonists. However, the pacing receives mixed reactions, with some finding it quick-paced while others say it starts slowly. Additionally, some customers find the book boring and not worth their time.

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409 customers mention "Readability"386 positive23 negative

Customers find the book compelling and excellently executed, appreciating its beauty in the richness of the story.

"...I found this book compelling, a vast and deliberate myth of migration, such as the travels of certain birds, fish, and mammals...." Read more

"...The most talented author seems to be writing a parabolic story with these two characters representing the many oppressed immigrants who are feeing..." Read more

"...To be fair, the book made me think. There were several lines in the text that were beautifully written and thought-provoking...." Read more

"...This is a story not to be missed by the very gifted author of Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia." Read more

293 customers mention "Writing quality"226 positive67 negative

Customers praise the writing quality of the book, noting its poetic prose and breathtaking language, with one customer highlighting its nearly dialogue-free style.

"...There were several lines in the text that were beautifully written and thought-provoking...." Read more

"...Ultimately, how Exit West was written felt true and anchored in what we’re sometimes in life afraid to bring up with someone who we once loved: that..." Read more

"...Also, how does he write such long, beautiful sentences?..." Read more

"...The author's style of run-on, repetitive sentence/paragraph writing was drowning at times and the middle was full of depression and gloom and..." Read more

90 customers mention "Perspective"72 positive18 negative

Customers appreciate the book's perspective on immigration, describing it as a great conceptual framework that captures the essence of migration.

"...I found this book compelling, a vast and deliberate myth of migration, such as the travels of certain birds, fish, and mammals...." Read more

"...What gives us the fable-like structure is how people move between countries (a metaphor for a visa, but so unlike one)—and the fact that the two..." Read more

"...Exit West was that oddly perfect first date with full disclosure and realistic expectations...." Read more

"...The idea of magic doors are inspiring, but too experimental. I also like that how he designes the change of the relationship of characters...." Read more

85 customers mention "Character development"62 positive23 negative

Customers praise the character development in the book, particularly the main characters Nadia and Saeed, and their enormous empathy throughout the story.

"...Although primarily focused on Nadia and Saeed, he sprinkles in other characters, often for a poignant cameo, to sharpen his themes of migration and..." Read more

"There is a lot to love about this novel - the two protagonists are richly drawn, the lovers in wartime premise is handled in a subtle and compelling..." Read more

"...There's very little dialogue in the book, very few actual developed characters, and the two main characters are complete opposites - with one..." Read more

"...Many characters are brought in, but I didn’t feel a deep connection to any of them...." Read more

77 customers mention "Emotional depth"65 positive12 negative

Customers appreciate the emotional depth of the book, with its heartfelt protagonists and message about relationships, while one customer describes it as a passionate tale of humanity that illuminates sympathetically the lives of its characters.

"...He is a keen yet sensitive observer of the human spirit with its contradictions as well as its dreams...." Read more

"...He draws us to empathize with Saeed and Nadia, and to ask ourselves what we would do in such a situation...." Read more

"...Sure, it's a nice exploration of the way that interpersonal relationships constantly transform, emotions migrating, which is Hamid's larger theme in..." Read more

"...writing so clear it shimmers like crystal and with a shared dose of our common humanity, this is a book that will be around forever...." Read more

58 customers mention "Pace"39 positive19 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the pacing of the book, with some finding it quick and timely, while others note that it starts off slowly.

"...Should I read it? Yes- what a timely book. Shouldn’t we all take a little time to think about the plight of the migrants?..." Read more

"..."Exit West", exceptionally well-written stories that tackle timely issues in a unique and compelling way...." Read more

"...I agree with other readers that the pace slows down towards the end, but I still recommend it and encourage you to read it and discuss with others..." Read more

"...reaction of the countries and its people were very realistic and felt very timely for the things going on in the world right now...." Read more

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Customers find the book boring and frustrating, describing it as terrible and not worth their time.

"...vignettes were never tied back to the plot line or characters; they were superfluous...." Read more

"...at times and the middle was full of depression and gloom and hopelessness to where I began to disengage a bit...." Read more

"...use of prose, most of the members found it to be distracting, annoying, and difficult to read...." Read more

"...The ending however, was a complete nonentity, it was so sudden and in a way seemed quite pointless." Read more

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  • Bonnie Brody
    5.0 out of 5 stars "We are all migrants through time."
    Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2017
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    The first thing brought to mind as I read this phenomenal novel by Mohsin Hamid was Bob Dylan's song, 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall'. I especially remembered these lines though so much of Dylan's song is applicable to this novel:

    I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
    I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
    I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
    I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
    And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
    And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

    The novel begins with Saaeed meeting Nadia. Theirs is love at first sight. They are living in a war-strewn nation and the only way to escape is through 'doors', doors that come and doors that go, doors of light and doors of dark, real doors and metaphorical ones. As time goes by, the doors are getting harder to find and more precious to access since everyone wants to leave. The identity of their first nation is never revealed but it could be any impoverished and chaotic place where the rule of law no longer exists and the mighty bow to the sword.

    Saaeed gives the impression, at first, that he is a liberated man, but it is Nadia, despite wearing a burka and dressing all in black, that is the real feminist. They find a door that leads them to Mykonos, a Greek Island. They stay for a while, even attaining their own room, but then decide to try a new door. Door after door - immigration from one vast and frightening locale to another, no door leading to peace and salvation, no door leading to safety and beauty. All doors have their risks and yet these two young people feel compelled to leave one place after another. Are they searching for something that is impossible to find or are they victims of a myth, a living allegory to Heraclitus's belief that one can never step into the same river twice.

    I found this book compelling, a vast and deliberate myth of migration, such as the travels of certain birds, fish, and mammals. Some travel to reproduce while other travel to end their lives. There is an innate desire to travel in order to begin or end one's life. I also viewed it as an allegory of our time, a novel of the cruelty and inhumane aspects of any place one might land on this earth. Despite hope, despite desperation, neither of the protagonists really knew what they wanted or what they were looking for.

    There is certainly the adventure of youth, the desire to escape cruelty and have one's basic needs met but there is more than that. And what that more consists of is the basis question of this novel. Is it love? Is it beauty? Is it peace? Is it freedom? For every reader, there will be a different answer. My initial thoughts are that the answer rests with knowledge, that through knowledge we gain experience, and from experience, we gain wisdom.

    As Mr. Dylan so articulately states at the end of his poem/song when he asks his son what he'll do no, he is answered by this refrain:

    I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
    Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
    Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
    Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
    Where the executioner's fact is always well hidden
    Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
    Where black is the color, where none is the number
    And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breath it
    And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
    Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
    But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
    And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
    It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
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  • Foster Corbin
    4.0 out of 5 stars Love in Dangerous Times
    Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2017
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    In Mohsin Hamid’s new novel Saeed and Nadia meet in a very dangerous place that is not even identified until page 91 (Dubai), eventually fall in love and leave their homeland for what they hope will be a better life. The most talented author seems to be writing a parabolic story with these two characters representing the many oppressed immigrants who are feeing many countries now and, as the title of the novel indicates, exiting to the West. Almost no other characters are named, including the parents of both the main characters, another indication that we are to see this novel as an allegory or parable.
    As Colson Whitehead in THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD has done recently by making the means of escape for slaves an actual railroad system underground, Mr. Hamid also engages in magical realism here: Saeed and Nadia simply step through black doors first to get out of Dubai; other dark doors lead them immediately to Amsterdam, London and more points west. A brilliant touch. Then there is the author’s language: the stars are “like a splash of milk in the sky.” But the sky can also be “drone-crossed.” When two men, described only as “wrinkled” and “elderly,” engage in a conversation with long gaps that are almost unnoticed by them, “as two ancient trees would not notice a few minutes are hours that passed without a breeze.”

    Amid all the danger, suspense and difficulty involved in Saeed and Nadia’s journey, Mr. Hamid also makes profound and moving statements. Saeed understands that “to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.” As he gets further away from home, Saeed prays more. “When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge to one another. . . it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity’s potential for building a better world. . .”

    Running across these kinds of statements is a perfect reminder of why we read good literature. Mr. Hamid’s THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, nominated for a Booker several years ago, blew me away. EXIT WEST is not a bad runner-up.
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  • Kalyani
    5.0 out of 5 stars Universality of refugee and human experiences
    Reviewed in India on January 9, 2018
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    Exit West
    Exit West written by Mohsin Hamid created ripples in literature circles and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017. This short, lyrical book tells us the story of Saeed and Nadia, two young lovers from an unknown city from an unnamed country. We know that the time period is contemporary because of the presence of mobile phones and internet and surveillance tools like cameras and drones.
    At the onset, as Saeed and Nadia struggle to live in their city, we realise how violence and fear of violence changes everyday life. people keep away from windows, procuring a joint becomes mighty difficult, everyone hordes food, visiting a lover becomes sporadic, funerals are quick and hushed and everyone dreams of door. As things get worse in the city that they live in, fundamentalism and violence rising hand in hand, people desperately hope for things to get better until this hope gives in to despair and then the desperate need to flee. This is a tale of desperation, of hope, and love and what violence does to people. Saeed’s family hopes for things to get better, but instead they get worse. His mother dies, literally blown to pieces. Saeed and Nadia seek a way out, they have heard that magical doors take people to faraway lands, lands which are safe. Saeed’s father refuses to accompany them, preferring to stay put and wait for his end. Saeed is left with no option but to leave him behind; but his father’s death takes a toll on him.
    The only element of magic in this book is the magical ‘doors’ which transport people to different places. Through these doors Saeed and Nadia exit their country and go to Mykonos, a Greek island, then to London and ultimately San Francisco. Though at one level, ‘door’ is an interesting metaphor, it does injustice to the entire refugee experience. Being a refugee, an illegal migrant means facing innumerable physical hardships, and risk, even risking life to live across borders. This aspect goes unmentioned, but Hamid does a great job of exploring the psychology of exile – confused experiences of adapting to new surroundings, language, new xenophobias mixed with the pain of losing one’s home and loved ones. These magical doors also point to the inadequacy of local governments in controlling immigration.
    The book in a painful-beautiful way show how two individuals grow in a different way, reacting differently to the turmoil that they are in. they are helpless in the sense that they have no control of the larger forces that form their circumstances, and yet in each action they exercise their agency choosing to be who they want to be. Saeed and Nadia are both young secular people, who are hardly religious. Nadia wears a black robe to protect herself from unwanted advances, smokes joints and does psychedelic mushrooms in the beginning, continues to be fiercely independent, but for some unknown reason perhaps even unknown to her continues to do even when she is not required to, and continues to be secular, more adaptive and enthused by her changed circumstances. Saeed on the other hand finds it more difficult to adapt, feeling guilty for his father’ death, carrying a sense of unbelonging. He prays, and he prays more. He becomes religious, for it is only prayer that brings him momentary peace.
    Life of course continues to be difficult for them. There is perhaps a surety of living, but ‘she wondered whether she and Saeed had done anything by moving, whether the faces and buildings had changed but the basic reality of their predicament had not’.
    The book between Saeed and Nadia weakens over time. Their refugee status takes a toll on them and they go from being lovers, to friends to nothing. They drift away, only to meet briefly half a century later in the city that they came from, where there is relative peace since they time that they left.
    Saeed and Nadia are the only two persons named in the book. Their full names are not given. Although the plot focuses on Saeed and Nadia it is intercepted by many other smaller stories. The author tries to bring in simultaneity, how multiple incidences happen at the same time. This bring lends temporality and spatial dimension to the book. The book is beautiful as it manages to give us a microscopic view of Saeed and Nadia’s life and simultaneously giving us a bird’s eye view of the larger picture. Other people and their lives feature regularly. The book captures the present refugee crisis very well. In a globalized world, people are always connected to others through the internet and other means, and yet there is a feeling of unbelonging. ‘The news in those days was full of war and migrants and nativists, and it was full of fracturing too, of regions pulling away from nations, and cities pulling away from hinterlands, and it seemed that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart’. Is this not an accurate description of our globalized times?
    It is interesting that the country and Saeed and Nadia remain unnamed. It could be anywhere. This renders a quality of universality of experience. How is the experience of Rohingya refugees any different from those fleeing Afganistan or Syria or any other war torn country? And this university of experience, of sorrow and suffering, but also strong ties of love, makes this book and its people human.
    ‘A feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another.’
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  • Anónima
    5.0 out of 5 stars Original
    Reviewed in Spain on March 2, 2024
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    One of the most original novelas I have read lately. It is the mix between a fantasy and a social plot (refugees)
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  • Klaus Morning
    5.0 out of 5 stars Top
    Reviewed in Germany on January 22, 2025
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    War ein Geschenk das demjenigen sehr gut gefiel
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  • Tarek Amin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book. Quick read
    Reviewed in Canada on January 19, 2018
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    Great book. Quick read. Really well developed characters. Interesting story. I got all the feels reading this. Very insightful and thought provoking as well
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  • Corinne04
    5.0 out of 5 stars Quite extraordinary
    Reviewed in France on June 7, 2022
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    Although the reader find many similarities with our present and troubled worlds, the allegories take you on a very human journey. The writing is as light as a feather but always hits the mark. I liked all of it, from the hard hitting beginning to the hopeful but nostalgic end.
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