The Other Americans
Autor Laila Lalamien Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mar 2020
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 Aspen Words Literary Prize
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, The Guardian, Variety, and Kirkus Reviews Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraoui--father, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrant--is hit and killed by a speeding car. The aftermath of his death brings together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer returning to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; her mother, Maryam, who still pines for her life in the old country; Efra n, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Nora's and an Iraqi War veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son's secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself. As the characters--deeply divided by race, religion, and class--tell their stories, each in their own voice, connections among them emerge. Driss's family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love--messy and unpredictable--is born. Timely, riveting, and unforgettable, The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780525436034
ISBN-10: 0525436030
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 133 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0525436030
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 133 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Notă biografică
Laila Lalami is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, and The Moor's Account, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Harper's Magazine, and The Guardian. In 2019, she was awarded the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize for her body of work. A professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside, she lives in Los Angeles. www.lailalalami.com
Caracteristici
The Moor's Account was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015. It also won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
Recenzii
A rich and mysterious family saga by a Pulitzer Prize-nominated author who always delivers magnificent prose. This story about the death of a Moroccan immigrant explodes into a compelling tale of love, family, race and heartache. Absolutely wonderful
This deftly constructed account of a crime and its consequences shows up, in its quiet way, the pressures under which ordinary Americans have labored since the events of 9/11
A family saga with the suspense of a mystery and, finally, the satisfying resolution of a thriller
A writer of uncommon conviction and tremendous insight
A provocative and gripping novel by a gifted writer
Confirms Lalami's reputation as one of the most sensitive interrogators, probing at the faultlines in family and the wider world
A powerful novel of intolerance and compassion, resilience and weakness, love and loss, populated by flawed but sympathetic characters whose lives are rocked by actions and emotions beyond their control
A moving and exceptionally rich portrait of a modern American community, one that is much more far-reaching than just a saga of immigration
Rich, polyphonic ... Accumulates a kind of revelatory power, setting aside top-down commentary in favour of side-by-side juxtaposition, a narrative style that ultimately functions as a plea for more listening
In gentle and stylish prose, Lalami gives us a picture of life as a Muslim immigrant in the USA, a glimpse of the trauma suffered by veterans of war in the Middle East and an account of family stresses familiar in all cultures and countries. It is a most impressive novel
A wonderfully constructed novel, like a musical piece made up of many voices
I'm going to make a prediction, which is dangerous I know, but nonetheless. I predict The Other Americans is going to create a literary storm. Near enough to faultless, this book is a poignant exploration of grief, love, racism and jealousy that will undoubtedly rank as one of the best books of 2019
Lalami packs sibling rivalry, a crime investigation, a love story and family secrets into her propulsive plotline . A masterful and intimate polyphonic narrative
A strong successor to her Pulitzer-nominated The Moor's Account, The Other Americans is a study of race in the wake of the War on Terror intertwined deftly with a love story and the dissection of a family dynamic, in which every character, like the young Moroccan acrobats, contributes an essential part of the whole
This may be even better than The Moor's Account . The Other Americans is a combination mystery, love story and literary exploration of immigrants in America
Lalami is in thrilling command of her narrative gifts, reminding readers why The Moor's Account was a Pulitzer finalist . Lalami expertly mines an American penchant for rendering the 'other'
Unforgettable
Tremendous and powerful, The Moor's Account is one of the finest historical novels I've encountered in a while. It rings with thunder!
A story with extraordinary power. The Moor's Account is more than a good story, it's a great one: rich, vivid and gripping; a thoughtful investigation into how we frame the narratives of our own lives
Lalami has once again shown why she is one of her generation's most gifted writers
Lalami has built a remarkable novel
An exciting tale of wild hopes, divided loyalties and highly precarious fortunes
Brilliantly imagined
This deftly constructed account of a crime and its consequences shows up, in its quiet way, the pressures under which ordinary Americans have labored since the events of 9/11
A family saga with the suspense of a mystery and, finally, the satisfying resolution of a thriller
A writer of uncommon conviction and tremendous insight
A provocative and gripping novel by a gifted writer
Confirms Lalami's reputation as one of the most sensitive interrogators, probing at the faultlines in family and the wider world
A powerful novel of intolerance and compassion, resilience and weakness, love and loss, populated by flawed but sympathetic characters whose lives are rocked by actions and emotions beyond their control
A moving and exceptionally rich portrait of a modern American community, one that is much more far-reaching than just a saga of immigration
Rich, polyphonic ... Accumulates a kind of revelatory power, setting aside top-down commentary in favour of side-by-side juxtaposition, a narrative style that ultimately functions as a plea for more listening
In gentle and stylish prose, Lalami gives us a picture of life as a Muslim immigrant in the USA, a glimpse of the trauma suffered by veterans of war in the Middle East and an account of family stresses familiar in all cultures and countries. It is a most impressive novel
A wonderfully constructed novel, like a musical piece made up of many voices
I'm going to make a prediction, which is dangerous I know, but nonetheless. I predict The Other Americans is going to create a literary storm. Near enough to faultless, this book is a poignant exploration of grief, love, racism and jealousy that will undoubtedly rank as one of the best books of 2019
Lalami packs sibling rivalry, a crime investigation, a love story and family secrets into her propulsive plotline . A masterful and intimate polyphonic narrative
A strong successor to her Pulitzer-nominated The Moor's Account, The Other Americans is a study of race in the wake of the War on Terror intertwined deftly with a love story and the dissection of a family dynamic, in which every character, like the young Moroccan acrobats, contributes an essential part of the whole
This may be even better than The Moor's Account . The Other Americans is a combination mystery, love story and literary exploration of immigrants in America
Lalami is in thrilling command of her narrative gifts, reminding readers why The Moor's Account was a Pulitzer finalist . Lalami expertly mines an American penchant for rendering the 'other'
Unforgettable
Tremendous and powerful, The Moor's Account is one of the finest historical novels I've encountered in a while. It rings with thunder!
A story with extraordinary power. The Moor's Account is more than a good story, it's a great one: rich, vivid and gripping; a thoughtful investigation into how we frame the narratives of our own lives
Lalami has once again shown why she is one of her generation's most gifted writers
Lalami has built a remarkable novel
An exciting tale of wild hopes, divided loyalties and highly precarious fortunes
Brilliantly imagined