Books like Exit West
In a city swollen by refugees and sliding into civil war, Nadia and Saeed fall in love, and hear rumours of doors that lead out of the country to somewhere else.
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The Island of Missing Trees
A Greek Cypriot boy and a Turkish Cypriot girl fall in love in a 1970s Nicosia tavern with a fig tree growing through its roof, and the tree tells much of the story.
Birdsong
In 1910 Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman sent to Amiens to learn the textile trade, falls in love with the unhappy wife of his host; six years later he is an officer in the trenches a few miles away.
The Last Romantics
In 2079 the celebrated poet Fiona Skinner, now very old, tells an audience the true story behind her most famous poem, which begins with the Pause, the years after her father's death when her mother took to her bed and four children raised themselves.
Signs Preceding the End of the World
Makina, who works the switchboard in a small Mexican town, crosses the border to bring her brother home, carrying a message from her mother and a package from the local crime bosses.
Tropic of Orange
When an orange carrying the Tropic of Cancer travels north from Mexico, it drags the line and the hemisphere with it, and seven people in Los Angeles, from a news producer to a homeless man conducting traffic from a freeway overpass, are caught up as the map shifts.
Wandering Star
Esther, a Jewish girl hiding with her mother in a mountain village in the south of France in 1943, sets out after the war for Palestine, where her path briefly crosses that of Nejma, a Palestinian girl bound for a refugee camp.
How to Stop Time
Tom Hazard looks forty but was born in 1581, ages very slowly, and is protected by a society of people like him whose first rule is never to fall in love, until he takes a job teaching history at a London school.
A Farewell to Arms
An American ambulance driver and a British nurse fall in love on the Italian front in World War I, and the war grinds their happiness to nothing.
Atonement
A thirteen-year-old girl tells a lie that destroys two lives, then spends decades trying to atone through the only tool she has: writing.
Sleepwalking Land
During Mozambique's civil war, an old man, Tuahir, and a boy, Muidinga, take shelter in a burnt-out bus, where the boy finds the notebooks of a dead man, Kindzu, and reads them aloud.
Everything Inside
Eight stories of Haitians in Miami, in Port-au-Prince and on an unnamed island, among them a woman visiting a dying friend, a man on the edge of a roof and a love triangle that reaches across the sea.
Moon Tiger
Claudia Hampton, a popular historian dying in a London hospital, decides to write a history of the world and of herself, and comes back to her wartime love affair in Egypt.