In an era of intensified global circulation, contemporary fiction often grapples with the politics of language, identity, and translatability. This article explores how Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West employs a deliberate strategy of language flattening, a stylistic choice that eschews code-switching, idiomatic texture, and vernacular richness to produce a smooth, globally legible prose. Grounded in postcolonial language politics and postmonolingual theory, this study offers a close, qualitative reading of the novel. Rather than viewing linguistic omission as neutral, the analysis interprets it as a politically meaningful act that complicates the critical tendency to equate multilingualism with resistance. The paper adopts a single-text case study approach and concludes by proposing language flattening as a useful lens for analyzing style in other transnational Anglophone texts and suggests avenues for future comparative and reader-response research.