Exit West: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, one of Barack Obama's top ten books of 2017, The Times Top 10 bestseller, Guardian Top 10 bestseller, The New York Times Top 5 bestseller. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018 and finalist for the Neustadt Prize 2018. An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. - 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.