Bienvenidos a Occidente / Exit West
Bienvenidos a Occidente / Exit West
Hamid, Mohsin
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Condition: New, UPC: 9788416709885, Publication Date: Mon, January 1, 2018, Type: Hardcover ,
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0Bienvenidos a Occidente es una bell sima f bula sobre los refugiados, una novela con una s lida posici n tica que nos cuestiona en qu mundo queremos vivir. Por Mohsin Hamid, uno de los autores m s reputados de la actualidad.

La historia de amor furtivo de Nadia y Said tiene lugar en una ciudad llena de puntos de control y bombas. Es un laberinto humano donde, al empezar la guerra civil, surgen extra as habladur as: rumores sobre puertas que pod an llevarlo a uno a otro lugar, concretamente a lugares remotos, alejados de aquella trampa mortal de pa s .

En una historia pica de tremenda actualidad, esta ins lita pareja de amantes huir para recalar primero en Mikonos y luego ir desplaz ndose hacia el oeste, compartiendo el periplo vital de millones de personas que sufren en sus carnes el rechazo (o, en ocasiones, la bienvenida) de Occidente.

Rese as:

Din mica y lapidaria. Una novela absorbente.

Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Elegante y actual. Hamid es un escritor tan rom ntico como pol tico: en el centro de sus novelas siempre late una historia de amor.

Louis Wise, The Sunday Times

Una obra maestra, que estira los l mites de lo veros mil para hablar del lugar en el mundo que ocupan inmigrantes y refugiados. Pero es tambi n una novela asentada en lo real. Un libro bell simo.

Michael Chabon

En el coraz n de la novela, la cuesti n moral sobre los derechos migratorios llega donde ninguna otra obra ha llegado todav a.

Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic

Impresionante. Bienvenidos a Occidente confirma la reputaci n de Hamid como ventr locuo genial e implicado en los asuntos m s urgentes de nuestro tiempo.

Andrew Motion, The Guardian Extraordinaria.

Zadie Smith

Lo que sit a a Bienvenidos a Occidente en la lite de la novela contempor nea es su manera de narrar, como ning n otro libro, lo que est sucediendo hoy y forma parte ya de la Historia.

Davide Piacenza, Rivista Studio

Necesitamos m s escritores como Hamid. No nos conduce a la utop a, sino a la puerta de un futuro cercano donde se entrev n siluetas de forasteros: solo hay que cruzar el umbral y conocerlos.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"An instant New York Times Bestseller

"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 breathtaking novel... that] arrives at an urgent time."

-NPR.org

As featured in the Skimm, on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Fresh Air, PBS Newshour, the cover of the New York Times Book Review, and more, an 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 familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors--doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. . . .

Exit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.

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