The Resource Exit west, Mohsin Hamid
Exit west, Mohsin Hamid
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The item Exit west, Mohsin Hamid represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Exit west, Mohsin Hamid represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night. This is Saeed. He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for star-gazing.This is their story: a love story, but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow. Saeed and Nadia are falling in love, and their city is falling apart. Here is a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it.Exit West is a heartfelt and radical act of hope - a novel to restore your faith in humanity and in the power of imagination
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 261 pages (large print)
- Isbn
- 9781432847654
- Label
- Exit west
- Title
- Exit west
- Statement of responsibility
- Mohsin Hamid
- Subject
-
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLove stories
- truePolitical violence
- Refugees -- Fiction
- trueRefugees
- trueReligious persecution
- Civil war -- Fiction
- trueFundamentalism
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- truePolitical fiction
- trueImmigration and emigration
- Romance fiction
- Choice (Pyschology) -- Fiction
- trueGuerrilla warfare
- trueCivil war
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Large type books
- trueCulture conflict
- trueWar stories
- trueCouples
- trueVoyages and travels
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night. This is Saeed. He is sweet and shy and kind to strangers. He also has a balcony but he uses his for star-gazing.This is their story: a love story, but also a story about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow. Saeed and Nadia are falling in love, and their city is falling apart. Here is a world in crisis and two human beings travelling through it.Exit West is a heartfelt and radical act of hope - a novel to restore your faith in humanity and in the power of imagination
- Summary
- Presents the story of two young lovers whose furtive affair is shaped by local unrest on the eve of a civil war that erupts in a cataclysmic bombing attack, forcing them to abandon their previous home and lives
- Award
-
- ALA Notable Book, 2018.
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2017.
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, 2017.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2017
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10554471
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1971-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hamid, Mohsin
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3558.A42169
- LC item number
- E95 2018b
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 1660
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Civil war
- Choice (Pyschology)
- Refugees
- Man-woman relationships
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Exit west, Mohsin Hamid
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21389055
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 261 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781432847654
- Lccn
- 2017003995
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Label
- Exit west, Mohsin Hamid
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21389055
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 261 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781432847654
- Lccn
- 2017003995
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
Subject
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Choice (Pyschology) -- Fiction
- trueCivil war
- Civil war -- Fiction
- trueCouples
- trueCulture conflict
- trueFundamentalism
- trueGuerrilla warfare
- trueImmigration and emigration
- Large type books
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLove stories
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- truePolitical fiction
- truePolitical violence
- trueRefugees
- Refugees -- Fiction
- trueReligious persecution
- Romance fiction
- trueVoyages and travels
- trueWar stories
Genre
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Fiction
- Large type books
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLove stories
- truePolitical fiction
- Romance fiction
- trueWar stories
Included in
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 2018
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2017
- trueLos Angeles Times Book Prizes: Fiction
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2017
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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