Review of 'Exit West: SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Ploughed through this book and enjoyed it. Can’t put my finger on why but liked the tone and writing for sure.
256 pages
Published Feb. 27, 2018 by Riverhead Books.
"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. [This book] follows the couple 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."--From regular print book.
Ploughed through this book and enjoyed it. Can’t put my finger on why but liked the tone and writing for sure.
Really enjoyed this one. Well-written and touching.