Laila Lalami

• Mar-2025
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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 a near future where even dreams are under su...

• Sep-2020
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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: Time, NPR, Bookpage, Los Angeles TimesIn this brilliantly argued...

• Mar-2019
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From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherou...

• Sep-2014
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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 the Americas with his master, Dorantes, as part of a d...

• May-2009
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Youssef el-Mekki, a young man of nineteen, is living with his mother in the slums of Casablanca when he discovers that the father he believed to be dead is, in fact, alive and eager to befriend and support him. Leaving his mother behind, Youssef assu...

• Oct-2005
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In this literary novel, four Moroccans escape their circumstances to seek a new beginning for themselves -- and places they can home -- in Spain."A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise." -- Junot Diaz​Hope and Other Da...