Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Sarker Hasan Al Zayed (Independent University Bangladesh), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

First circulation or publication Mar 2017

Places

United Kingdom (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Exit West by Mohsin Hamid is the Pakistan-born author’s fourth novel and was published in 2017. In the same year it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Kirkus Prize, Medici Book Club Prize, Neustadt Prize, and the St. Francis College Literary Prize and more recently the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award; it was also selected by the New York Times as one of the best books of the year, and in 2018 has won two more literary awards in the US, The Inaugural Aspen Words Literary Prize and the L.A. Times Book Prize in the 'fiction' category.

Hamid’s prescient novel merges elements of fantasy with realism, to examine the question of borders and boundaries and …

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Citation: Shamsie, Muneeza. "Exit West". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 January 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38792, accessed 23 September 2023.]

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