Mohsin Hamid: Exit West

Exit West, published in 2017, is the fourth novel of British Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid. The critically acclaimed work of Hamid follows two young lovers who escape their home which develops to be a battleground between the rebels and the government. As they migrate throughout the world they face the difficulties of life that come along with the label of refugee. From nationalism to moral dilemmas to existential crises to death, the two have no shortage of problems to face and to solve. But one simply doesn't fall to the flames of hell to rise from those flames as the same person as they were before falling. Difficulties change, mold and often define who we are.  How does these difficulties mold, change and define Nadia and Saeed?     

“but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”