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Laila Lalami
'A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future ... An elegant meditation on identity, motherhood, and what we sacrifice, unthinkingly, for the sake of convenience' JENNIFER EGAN
'Extraordinary ... More…
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The Dream Hotel is a gripping speculative mystery about the seductive dangers of the technologies that are supposed to make our lives easier. As terrifying as it is inventive, it…
From Laila Lalami-the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a "maestra of literary fiction" (NPR)-comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman's fight for freedom, set…
In these pages, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America: Mustafa al-Zamori, called Estebanico. The slave of a Spanish conquistador, Estebanico sails for…
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In the spirit of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Lalami’s powerful first novel explores the struggle for identity, the need for family, and the desperation that overtakes ordinary lives in a country…
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Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America–a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. –Amazon.com
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Sensitively written with beauty and boldness, this is a gripping book about what propels people to risk their lives in search of a better future.
Finalist for the National Book Award 2019
An Observer, Literary Review and Time Book of the Year
‘One of the most affecting novels I have read. Subtle, wise and full…
***2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST*** Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction Finalist for the California Book Award Longlisted for the…
A New York Times Editors’ Choice * Finalist for the California Book Award * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Best Book of the Year…
"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2014."--Title page verso.
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Fouad Laroui
Award-winning English-language debut by Morocco’s most prominent contemporary author, a linked story collection exploring what it means to be foreign.
Tayeb Salih
The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led…
Simpsonistas: Tales from the Simpson Literary Project, Vol. 2 highlights brilliant work by associates of the Simpson Project: Joyce Carol Oates, Anthony Marra, Laila Lalami, Sigrid Nunez, and many others…
