Exit West by Mohsin Hamid5/21/2023 They are a fascinating study of a couple in wartime. I truthfully absolutely loved these initial scenes. If the novel were just the couple and their fight to live in their city, then what a wonderful book it would have been. But yet, despite these enormous setbacks and struggles, they live on. The city is crumbling around Nadia and Saeed, blackouts are frequent, the water supply is often cut and drones hover overhead at all times. This setting and story is what we come to expect from Hamid, who also wrote the flawed but admirable The Reluctant Fundamentalist. The novel begins with Nadia and Saeed, a couple living in an unnamed Middle-Eastern city. Exit West is one of the most bitterly disappointing and downright awful novels I have read in a long while. I rarely ever do this, but I'm rating and reviewing this even though I haven't finished it.
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