WINNER OF THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZETEN BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A breathtaking novel…[that] arrives at an urgent time. -NPR It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful. -Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review 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. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning...

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