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 ab...
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. . . .
Exit West follows these remarkable characters 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. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.
One's relationship to window now changed in the city. A window was the border through which death was possibly most likely to come. Windows could not stop even the most flagging round of ammunition: any spot indoors with a view of the outside was a spot potentially in the crossfile. Moreover the pane of a window could itself becoe shrapnel so easily, shattered by a nearby blast, and everyone had heard of someone or other who had bled out after being lacerated by shards of flying glass.
Many windows were broken already, and the prudent thing would have been to remove those that remained, but it was winter and the nights were cold, and without gas and electricity, both of which were in increasingly short supply, windows served to take some of the edge off the chill, and so people left them ... (查看原文)
前两章有点没有新意🤔乍一看不如How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. But 俺先接着看！ 还可以😌没有Filthy Rich 好看，但是比Reluctant Fundamentalist 好很多。形式上的创新，总得来说，雷声大雨点小，但是不乏可取之处。Hamid一直都很勤奋，一直在追求创新。如此年轻，如此成就，感恩有这样的作家书写世纪之大变...前两章有点没有新意🤔乍一看不如How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. But 俺先接着看！ 还可以😌没有Filthy Rich 好看，但是比Reluctant Fundamentalist 好很多。形式上的创新，总得来说，雷声大雨点小，但是不乏可取之处。Hamid一直都很勤奋，一直在追求创新。如此年轻，如此成就，感恩有这样的作家书写世纪之大变！(展开)
Sometimes the long, seemingly never-ending sentences engineered truly beautiful, lyrical, and melancholic narrative moments, but overall it tried to touch on way too many things/themes at once that it failed to completely flesh out any one theme particularl...
(展开)
莫欣·哈米德 作者
新经典
南海出版公司2019版
马卡龙下午茶
一二宅
南海出版公司2019版
0 有用 卢比比 2022-11-08 09:42:55 美国
前两章有点没有新意🤔乍一看不如How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. But 俺先接着看！ 还可以😌没有Filthy Rich 好看，但是比Reluctant Fundamentalist 好很多。形式上的创新，总得来说，雷声大雨点小，但是不乏可取之处。Hamid一直都很勤奋，一直在追求创新。如此年轻，如此成就，感恩有这样的作家书写世纪之大变... 前两章有点没有新意🤔乍一看不如How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. But 俺先接着看！ 还可以😌没有Filthy Rich 好看，但是比Reluctant Fundamentalist 好很多。形式上的创新，总得来说，雷声大雨点小，但是不乏可取之处。Hamid一直都很勤奋，一直在追求创新。如此年轻，如此成就，感恩有这样的作家书写世纪之大变！ (展开)
0 有用 Rug 2018-07-25 08:50:45
怎么还没拍成剧
0 有用 L 2022-08-10 03:35:42
语言一般，设定上看似架空，还有神奇的可以穿梭的门，但是剧情现实而空洞，too general。Nadia和Saeed的感情写得像是战乱版的“花束般的爱情”。
0 有用 每天都吃车厘子 2024-04-16 00:18:08 美国
文笔还可以，剧情比较中规中矩，message不错，整体来说没有太惊喜的点
0 有用 palmtree 2020-10-12 22:26:13
Violence and tyranny are condemned through a seemingly indifferent and calm tone. Some humors about Islamism sound more like irony though.