Of Windows And Doors By Mohsin Hamid

The dangers of the ongoing war between the militants and the government in our protagonists unnamed middle eastern country enter through windows.

Of windows and doors by mohsin hamid.

This is another suggestion from the shortfictionsunday hashtag. The contractor wanted to know whether he should coat their windows and glass doors with something called bomb blast. However these doors brought the radicals into the city from the hills in the first place so the militants are well aware of their existence guarding them and killing those. Carnage ensues around them and saeed s mother becomes a casualty.

I first read mohsin hamid when his second novel the reluctant fundamentalist was shortlisted for the 2007 man booker prize. Mohsin hamid of windows and doors new yorker november 14 2016 november 14 2018 by paul debraski soundtrack. Of windows and doors. This week in fiction.

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. Hamid and his wife had just moved back to lahore and were in the process of renovating their house. 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. Mohsin hamid on the migrants in all of us.

Apparently these doors simply appear in the place of regular doors and many of the city s inhabitants actively seek them out as a way of escaping the violent radicals. They go to school and work for as long as they can before it is too unsafe. Of windows and doors is a short story by hamid following nadia and saeed living in a nonspecific war zone. November 7 2016 mohsin hamid whose story of windows and doors appears in the magazine this week.

Walker getty for doha film institute y our story in this week s issue. Mohsin hamid has created something wonderful with this endearing and perfectly formed short novel. Windows are boarded up taped up or. By mohsin hami d.

Of windows and doors by mohsin hamid. Photograph by andrew h. Windows and doors feature heavily in exit west. By cressida leysho n.

Published in the new yorker november 2016. Save this story for later. Apparently the coating holds the glass together sparing those inside from death by flying shards.