I heard a podcast about this book that immediately caught my attention. It is the story of a number of people (but mainly focusing on a man and a woman, Saaed and Nadia) who migrate using doors. Saaed and Nadia live in a war torn city (possibly in Syria) where it has become more and more dangerous to live, and also dangerous to leave. Mysterious doors start appearing across the city and one day they decide to leave together, although they are unsure of where the door will take them. This is a novel that has a very interesting take on the current migrant crisis in Europe, it feels real and yet there is a sci-fi element that is added due to the doors. The doors could easily take you anywhere in the world and they seem to just open up at random. They work both ways, as in a person in a rich country could easily enter a poor country, so this is also a comment on the socio-economic condition of migration. A very interesting section of the book was the part where the couple end up in London, and how Londoners deal with the sudden and unexpected influx of migrants in the city.
I sped through this book, completing it within a week, which in my life is more or less a miracle now! It has some very interesting concepts, although I felt that by the end the author had perhaps lost a bit of direction and the story weakened. Having said that, I still have recommended it to a number of people.
