Nadia and Saeed meet, fall in love, and try to build something tender inside a world that is coming apart.

Then the novel turns: through a series of mysterious doors, they are carried across borders and into new lives, new countries, new versions of themselves.

Hamid writes migration, displacement, and border-crossing through the scale of intimacy: a relationship under pressure, two people changing at different speeds, love trying and failing to keep pace with history. It is slim, lucid, and oddly dreamlike — a political novel, yes, but also a very precise one about attachment, movement, and what happens when survival asks more of love than love can actually give.

Very good condition. Paperback edition, published 2017. Penguin Random House UK, standard trade paperback issue.