- Man-woman relationships, FICTION, Cultural Heritage, magic realist fiction
"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.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Mohsin Hamid
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 231
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton, HAMISH HAMILTON, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781531187521
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“In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her.”
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