Refugee crisis in the last few years of the present century has assumed such vast proportions which find parallels only during the World War II. The world is witnessing millions of people undertaking arduous journeys to escape their war torn countries of origin. Economic instability and deadly conflicts are forcing innumerable people to leave their homes in search of better lives. Mohsin Hamid’s novel Exit West (2017) is a modern take on the inevitable migration of people across countries, even across continents, when societies descend into chaos and conflict. This paper makes a humble attempt to highlight how Exit West depicts the plight of refugees in their war ravaged countries by specially focusing on an anonymous city torn apart by civil war. I argue that keeping the city unnamed is a way of universalizing the predicament of refugees. The novel uses the unusual but very clever teleportation device of black doors to transport people across different places instantly.

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