Exit West
Mohsin Hamid · 2017
Doors appear around the world that transport refugees instantly to new countries. Hamid's speculative fable about migration strips the refugee crisis to its emotional and philosophical core. The most elegant novel about displacement written in the decade.
The case against
Hamid's doors solve his plot problem and dodge his subject: the crossing, the most dangerous part of every refugee's story, happens offstage by design. Sentences unspool in single-breath paragraphs that keep you at a fable's distance, and Saeed and Nadia thin out as the book globalizes. By the California section they are positions in an argument about migration, gently concluded.
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