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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Laila Lalami
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Book PDF

Author : Laila Lalami
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781565127517

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“A dream of a debut, by turns troubling adn glorious, angry and wise.” —Junot Diaz Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. As four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain, author Laila Lalami asks, What has driven them to risk their lives? And will the rewards prove to be worth the danger? There’s Murad, a gentle, unemployed man who’s been reduced to hustling tourists around Tangier; Halima, who’s fleeing her drunken husband and the slums of Casablanca; Aziz, who must leave behind his devoted wife in hope of securing work in Spain; and Faten, a student and religious fanatic whose faith is at odds with an influential man determined to destroy her future. 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.

Secret Son

Laila Lalami
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Author : Laila Lalami
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616200015

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Secret Son by Laila Lalami Pdf

Raised by his mother in a one-room house in the slums of Casablanca, Youssef El Mekki has always had big dreams of living another life in another world. Suddenly his dreams are within reach when he discovers that his father—whom he’d been led to believe was dead—is very much alive. A wealthy businessman, he seems eager to give his son a new start. Youssef leaves his mother behind to live a life of luxury, until a reversal of fortune sends him back to the streets and his childhood friends. Trapped once again by his class and painfully aware of the limitations of his prospects, he becomes easy prey for a fringe Islamic group. In the spirit of The Inheritance of Loss and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Laila Lalami’s debut novel looks at the struggle for identity, the need for love and family, and the desperation that grips ordinary lives in a world divided by class, politics, and religion.

The Moor's Account

Laila Lalami
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Author : Laila Lalami
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476794129

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The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami Pdf

An “exquisite piece of historical fiction” (Winnipeg Free Press), The Moor’s Account is “brilliantly imagined fiction…rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth” (Salman Rushdie). In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez left the port of San Lucar de Barrameda in Spain with a crew of more than five hundred men. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and as famous as Hernán Cortés. But from the moment the Narváez expedition reached Florida it met with incredibly bad luck—storms, disease, starvation, hostile Indians. Within a year, there were only four survivors: the expedition’s treasurer, Cabeza de Vaca; a Spanish nobleman named Alonso del Castillo Maldonado; a young explorer by the name of Andrés Dorantes; and his Moroccan slave, Mustafa al-Zamori. The four survivors were forced to live as slaves to the Indians for six years, before fleeing and establishing themselves as faith healers. Together, they traveled on foot through present-day Florida, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, gathering thousands of disciples and followers along the way. In 1536, they crossed the Rio Grande into Mexican territory, where they stumbled on a group of Spanish slavers, who escorted them to the capital of the Spanish empire, México-Tenochtitlán. Three of the survivors were asked to provide testimony of their journey—Castillo, Dorantes, and Cabeza de Vaca, who later wrote a book about this adventure, called La Relacíon, or The Account. But because he was a slave, Estebanico was not asked to testify. His experience was considered irrelevant, or superfluous, or unreliable, or unworthy, despite the fact that he had acted as a scout, an interpreter, and a translator. This novel is his story.

The Other Americans

Laila Lalami
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Author : Laila Lalami
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524747152

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***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 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; Efraín, 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.

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Laila Lalami
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Author : Laila Lalami
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 015603087X

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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami Pdf

In this debut of an exciting new voice in fiction, Lalami evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. The book begins as four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain. What has driven them to risk their lives?

Conditional Citizens

Laila Lalami
Conditional Citizens Book PDF

Author : Laila Lalami
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525436041

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Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami Pdf

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 Times In 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 birth—such as national origin, race, and gender—that 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.

Memory, Voice, and Identity

Feroza Jussawalla,Doaa Omran
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Author : Feroza Jussawalla,Doaa Omran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000367362

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Memory, Voice, and Identity by Feroza Jussawalla,Doaa Omran Pdf

Muslim women have been stereotyped by Western academia as oppressed and voiceless. This volume problematizes this Western academic representation. Muslim Women Writers from the Middle East from Out al-Kouloub al-Dimerdashiyyah (1899–1968) and Latifa al-Zayat (1923–1996) from Egypt, to current diasporic writers such as Tamara Chalabi from Iraq, Mohja Kahf from Syria, and even trendy writers such as Alexandra Chreiteh, challenge the received notion of Middle Eastern women as subjugated and secluded. The younger largely Muslim women scholars collected in this book present cutting edge theoretical perspectives on these Muslim women writers. This book includes essays from the conflict-ridden countries such as Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, and the resultant diaspora. The strengths of Muslim women writers are captured by the scholars included herein. The approach is feminist, post-colonial, and disruptive of Western stereotypical academic tropes.

Sam's Letters to Jennifer

James Patterson
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Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759511163

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Sam's Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson Pdf

Discover two extraordinary romantic stories about the power of a life-changing love letter. Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story that will upend completely the world she thought she knew - and throw her into a love more powerful than she ever imagined could be possible. Two extraordinary love stories are entwined here, full of hope and pain and emotions that never die down.

Pafko at the Wall

Don DeLillo
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Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439105443

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"There's a long drive. It's gonna be. I believe. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant." -- Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951 On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World," Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction the larger-than-life characters who on October 3, 1951, witnessed Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Jackie Gleason is razzing Toots Shor in Leo Durocher's box seats; J. Edgar Hoover, basking in Sinatra's celebrity, is about to be told that the Russians have tested an atomic bomb; and Russ Hodges, raw-throated and excitable, announces the game -- the Giants and the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds in New York. DeLillo's transcendent account of one of the iconic events of the twentieth century is a masterpiece of American sportswriting.

Thunderhead

Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child
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Author : Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759525290

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Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written sixteen years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a fantastic discovery that will make him famous and rich---the lost city of an ancient civilization that suddenly vanished a thousand years ago. Now Nora is leading an expedition into a harsh, remote corner of Utah's canyon country. Searching for her father and his glory, Nora begins t unravel the greatest riddle of American archeology. but what she unearths will be the newest of horrors...

Tangier

Josh Shoemake
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Author : Josh Shoemake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857733764

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Tangier by Josh Shoemake Pdf

An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa but just nine miles from Europe, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape. The Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts and writers for centuries – men and women breaking through artistic borders. The results were some of the most incendiary and influential books of our time and the list of outlaw originals is long, stretching from Ibn Battuta and Alexandre Dumas to Twain and Wharton and from the darkly brilliant Beats of Bowles, Kerouac, Gysin and Ginsberg to the great Moroccan novelists: Mohamed Choukri, Mohammed Mrabet and Tahar Ben Jelloun.

Lords of the Atlas

Gavin Maxwell
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Author : Gavin Maxwell
Publisher : Eland & Sickle Moon Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0907871143

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Lords of the Atlas by Gavin Maxwell Pdf

Tells the extraordinary story of a feudal fiefdom in southern Morocco in the early twentieth century.

Season of Migration to the North

al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ
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Author : al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ
Publisher : Penguin Group(CA)
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Arabs
ISBN : 0141187204

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Season of Migration to the North by al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ Pdf

'SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH-An Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. 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 him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East. He kills them at the point of ecstasy and the Occident, in its turn, destroys him. Powerfully and poetically written and splendidly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.' Observer

Nothing in the World

Roy Kesey
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Author : Roy Kesey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0979312329

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Nothing in the World by Roy Kesey Pdf

Kesey's award winning novella sold out of original publisher's print run.

Vitality and Dynamism

Kirstin Ruth Bratt,Youness M. Elbousty,Devin J. Stewart
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Author : Kirstin Ruth Bratt,Youness M. Elbousty,Devin J. Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9087282133

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Vitality and Dynamism by Kirstin Ruth Bratt,Youness M. Elbousty,Devin J. Stewart Pdf

In Moroccan studies, literary criticism has focused on questions of migration, identity, secularism, and religious fanaticismissues that often examine Morocco within a colonial context. "Vitality and Dynamism" redefines this focus in Moroccan studies by looking at local themes and movements, including the relationships between subcultures and languages within Morocco. Topics in the volume include concepts of the self, intersections of self-identity and community, and the Moroccan reclaiming of identity in the postcolonial sphere. By extending discussion beyond traditional concepts, "Vitality and Dynamism "celebrates a new side of Moroccan literature. "