A young Saeed meets a young Nadia in a city about to explode into civil war and starting from a relationship inside a classroom without even as much as speaking to each other. As the violence increases and an independent minded Nadia living away from her own disowned parents, yet wearing her head to foot gowns, to be secure against sexual advances, moves over to live with Saeed and his father. Eventually they are forced to flee from one place to another through a magic door. In the process Mohsin Hamid, the writer, has brought about very minute details of relationship building and deteriorating and again building after their separation as the plot shifts between future, past and present. In the end we have an old Nadia meeting an old Saeed.
This is a very powerful work on relationships amidst changing circumstances and a must read.
In a scale of 20 we give it a clean 19.25.
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