LAILA LALAMI

Un soir de printemps, après avoir quitté le diner dont il est propriétaire, Driss Guerraoui, un Américain d’origine marocaine, est brutalement renversé par une voiture et meurt sur le coup. Le chauff

**PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST** **NOMINATED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE** **WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD** A "New York Times" Notable Book A "Wall Street Journal" Top 10 Book of the Year An NPR Great Read of 2014 A "Kirkus "Best Fiction Book of the Year 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 danger-laden expedition to Florida. Within a year, Estebanico is one of only four crew members to survive. As he journeys across America with his Spanish companions, the Old World roles of slave and master fall away, and Estebanico remakes himself as an equal, a healer, and a remarkable storyteller. His tale illuminates the ways in which our narratives can transmigrate into history and how storytelling can offer a chance at redemption and survival."

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME 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.Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraouifather, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrantis 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; Efrain, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Noras and an Iraqi War veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her sons secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself.

Cuatro marroquíes coinciden en una pequeña patera cruzando el estrecho de Gibraltar. A todos les une el mismo deseo, emigrar de Marruecos a Europa y comenzar una vida mejor. Pero su pasado y sus razones para emprender este viaje peligroso y con desenlace incierto son muy diferentes: Faten, una joven estudiante, pertenece a un grupo radical islamico y es enviada por su lider espiritual. Halima escapa con sus dos hijos de un marido abusivo y su triste vida en los suburbios de Casablanca. Aziz Amour deja detras a su esposa y espera encontrar un trabajo en España para enviar dinero a su familia y asegurarles el futuro. Murad, un joven desempleado, trabaja ocasionalmente como guia turistico y sueña con una nueva vida en la que la gente tiene trabajo todos los dias. Pero una vez cruzado el estrecho, no les espera el dorado futuro que ellos pensaban...

Em O hotel dos sonhos, a premiada autora Laila Lalami imagina um futuro distópico em que todos os seus dados são coletados e analisados e no qual até mesmo seus sonhos podem ser uma arma contra você.

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of Americathis "stunning [book] sheds light on all of the possible the New World exploration stories that didnt make history (Huffington Post). In these pages, Laila Lalami brings us the invented memoirs Mustafa al-Zamori, called Estebanico. The slave of a Spanish conquistador, Estebanico sails for the Americas with his master, Dorantes, as part of a danger-laden expedition to Florida. Within a year, Estebanico is one of only four crew members to survive. As he journeys across America with his Spanish companions, the Old World roles of slave and master fall away, and Estebanico remakes himself as an equal, a healer, and a remarkable storyteller. His tale illuminates the ways in which our narratives can transmigrate into historyand how storytelling can offer a chance at redemption and survival.

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 and deeply personal work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S.citizen, using her own story as a starting point for an exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birthsuch as national origin, race, and genderthat once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today, poignantly illustrating how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation. Weaving together her experiences with an examination of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture, Lalami illuminates how conditional citizens are all those whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF TIME MAGAZINES 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME 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.Late one spring night in California, Driss Guerraouifather, husband, business owner, Moroccan immigrantis hit and killed by a speeding car. The aftermath of his death brings together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraouis daughter Nora, a jazz composer returning to the small town in the Mojave she thought shed left for good; her mother, Maryam, who still pines for her life in the old country; Efrain, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Noras and an Iraqi War veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her sons secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself. As the charactersdeeply divided by race, religion, and classtell their stories, each in their own voice, connections among them emerge. Drisss family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and lovemessy and unpredictableis born. Winner of the Arab American Book Award in FictionFinalist for the Kirkus Prize in FictionFinalist for the California Book AwardLonglisted for the Aspen Words Literary PrizeA Los Angeles Times bestsellerNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, The Guardian, Variety, and Kirkus Reviews

NATIONAL BESTSELLER READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY From Laila Lalamithe Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a maestra of literary fiction (NPR)comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one womans fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAAs algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days.The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes. With every deviation from the strict and ever-shifting rules of the facility, their stay is extended. Months pass and Sara seems no closer to release. Then one day, a new resident arrives, disrupting the order of the facility and leading Sara on a collision course with the very companies that have deprived her of her freedom.Eerie, urgent, and ceaselessly clear-eyed, The Dream Hotel artfully explores the seductive nature of technology, which puts us in shackles even as it makes our lives easier. Lalami asks how much of ourselves must remain private if we are to remain free, and whether even the most invasive forms of surveillance can ever capture who we really are.

When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesnt realize the price he will pay for giving up his past...Casablancas stinking alleys are the only home that nineteen-year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, the film stars flickering on the local cinemas screen offer the only glimmer of hope to his frustrated dreams of escape. Until, that is, the father he thought dead turns out to be very much alive.A high profile businessman with wealth to burn, Nabil is disenchanted with his daughter and eager to take in the boy he never knew. Soon Youssef is installed in his penthouse and sampling the gold-plated luxuries enjoyed by Casablancas elite. But as he leaves the slums of his childhood behind him, he comes up against a starkly un-glittering reality...

'A provocative and gripping novel by a gifted writer' JOHN BOYNE 'Remarkable, timely ... Impeccably written' ROXANE GAY 'A deftly constructed account of a crime and its consequences' J.M. COETZEE 'A writer of uncommon conviction and tremendous insight' VIET THANH NGUYEN There wasn't anything I could do. All I saw was a man falling to the ground. Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; his widow Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country; Efrain, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, a former classmate of Nora's and now a veteran of the Iraq war; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son's secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and Driss himself. As the characters - deeply divided by race, religion and class - tell their stories in The Other Americans, Driss's family is forced to confront its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies and love, in all its messy and unpredictable forms, is born.