Bienvenidos a Occidente

Description:

"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. [This book] follows the couple 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."--From regular print book.

subjects: Man-woman relationships,  FICTION,  Cultural Heritage,  magic realist fiction,  Civil wars,  Political,  romance,  Literary,  Love stories,  Refugees,  FICTION / Political,  FICTION / Cultural Heritage,  FICTION / Literary,  Fiction, political,  Fiction, cultural heritage,  Fiction, romance, contemporary,  nyt:hardcover-fiction=2017-03-26,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  Choice (Psychology),  18.07 English literature outside Europe and the USA,  Romance fiction,  Fantasy fiction,  Réfugiés,  Roman,  Relations hommes-femmes,  Large type books,  Cuentos de amor,  Ficción,  Refugiados,  Novela romántica,  General,  Literature,  Refugees -- Fiction,  Refugiados -- Ficción,  Refugees--fiction,  Ps3558.a42169 e95 2017,  813/.54,  Fic037000 fic051000 fic019000