A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
Winner of The Aspen Words Literary Prize

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 . . .