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)
Surprising affecting！读过的最真实动人的爱情和分别的描写， We are all migrants through time，人生是一场场的分别和迁徙；Saed和Nadia的感情写的真实动人，刚分手的人看的感觉刀刀都在写实:刚见面的时候不停的手机聊天，好像怎样都聊不完，但正是因为有距离和手机来带来距离感所带来的美，天天一起漂泊后真的就会厌烦彼此然后长成不一样的人Staying ...Surprising affecting！读过的最真实动人的爱情和分别的描写， We are all migrants through time，人生是一场场的分别和迁徙；Saed和Nadia的感情写的真实动人，刚分手的人看的感觉刀刀都在写实:刚见面的时候不停的手机聊天，好像怎样都聊不完，但正是因为有距离和手机来带来距离感所带来的美，天天一起漂泊后真的就会厌烦彼此然后长成不一样的人Staying in touch took a toll on them...eventually a month went by without any contact,and then a year, and then a lifetime 但最后在故国的土地上N还能问S他有没有见过梦里的智利的星光，作者好温柔(展开)
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...
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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 suyanz 2018-03-19 06:01:27
叙述语言是特点，从头到尾冷静的忧伤更加体现了战乱难民的残酷和浪漫消失的无奈，比Autumn更算是针对于脱欧的反应作品吧。
3 有用 大胡子阿细 2018-01-27 15:31:16
神奇的门
0 有用 Bree 2022-06-02 02:15:10
继zadie smith后喜欢的当代作家
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 豆芽菜菜 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 -✨ 2023-12-11 23:07:41 北京
可能是本年度读的最糟糕的一本了，叙事平淡至极，用词遣句的手法非常难读，不知道是故意走极简路线还是极其冗杂路线，欣赏不来，有些片段翻译成中文就更加离谱了，比如类似描写：“她走了过去，他也走了过去，她走在前头，他走在后头，她之所以没有走在后头的原因是因为他走在前头，她之所以走在前头的原因是他在后头”。海明威都得翻棺材板了不好意思
0 有用 无畏东西 2023-12-11 15:37:08 北京
看的不认真是我的罪
0 有用 Decem 2023-11-11 12:36:51 美国
Surprising affecting！读过的最真实动人的爱情和分别的描写， We are all migrants through time，人生是一场场的分别和迁徙；Saed和Nadia的感情写的真实动人，刚分手的人看的感觉刀刀都在写实:刚见面的时候不停的手机聊天，好像怎样都聊不完，但正是因为有距离和手机来带来距离感所带来的美，天天一起漂泊后真的就会厌烦彼此然后长成不一样的人Staying ... Surprising affecting！读过的最真实动人的爱情和分别的描写， We are all migrants through time，人生是一场场的分别和迁徙；Saed和Nadia的感情写的真实动人，刚分手的人看的感觉刀刀都在写实:刚见面的时候不停的手机聊天，好像怎样都聊不完，但正是因为有距离和手机来带来距离感所带来的美，天天一起漂泊后真的就会厌烦彼此然后长成不一样的人Staying in touch took a toll on them...eventually a month went by without any contact,and then a year, and then a lifetime 但最后在故国的土地上N还能问S他有没有见过梦里的智利的星光，作者好温柔 (展开)
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)