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RIVERHEAD BOOKS An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 Copyright © 2017 by Mohsin Hamid Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader. Ebook ISBN: 9780735212183 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hamid, Mohsin, author. Title: Exit west : a novel / Mohsin Hamid. Description: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017. Identifiers: LCCN 2016036296 | ISBN 9780735212176 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Refugees—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Political. | FICTION / Cultural Heritage. | FICTION / Literary. | GSAFD: Love stories. Classification: LCC PS3558.A42169 E95 2017 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016036296 p. cm. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Version_1
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mohsin Hamid is th
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