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NAMED ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, PEOPLE, AND ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, GQ, O THE OPRAH MAGAZINE, AND LA TIMESFINALIST FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS "A breathtaking novel ... [that] arrives at an urgent time." -NPR.org"Moving, audacious, and indelibly human." -Entertainment Weekly, "A" rating A New York Times bestseller, the astonishingly visionary love story that imagines the forces that drive ordinary people from their homes into the uncertain embrace of new lands. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet - sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed.



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Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid is the author of four novels -- Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Exit West -- and a book of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations.His writing has been translated into forty languages, featured on bestseller lists, and adapted for the cinema.Born in Lahore, he has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.



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