As a young couple they each try to maintain a normal life despite the war breaking out.
Of windows and doors mohsin hamid analysis.
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Of windows and doors by mohsin hamid originally published in the november 14 2016 issue of the new yorker.
14 2016 issue of the new yorker.
I first read mohsin hamid when his second novel the reluctant fundamentalist was shortlisted for the 2007 man booker prize.
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Neighborhoods fell to militants quite easily.
Carnage ensues around them and saeed s mother becomes a casualty.
It is about saeed and nadia and how their unnamed city was constantly at war.
They go to school and work for as long as they can before it is too unsafe.
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Nadia was living alone and saeed was with his parents.
It is a world in which one cannot escape.
Mohsin hamid s novel exit west centers on the themes of confinement and escape the world of war is the world of boundaries walls and even intimacy.
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Of windows and doors by moshin hamid is just about as real as it gets depicting the struggles of a young man and woman trying to first deal with life and then escape life in their war ravaged home country presumably syria.
He s also been the subject of one of our new yorker posts in the past when the third born was published in 2012 though not one that garnered a lot of discussion i m not even sure if i read it.
Published in the new yorker november 2016.
The contractor wanted to know whether he should coat their windows and glass doors with something called bomb blast.
Apparently the coating holds the glass together sparing those inside from death by flying shards.
Hamid and his wife had just moved back to lahore and were in the process of renovating their house.
January 10 2017 of window and doors this story was depressing and brutally honest.