books by Laila Lalami

books by Laila Lalami

books:

Laila Lalami

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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, t. tara turk, ...

Lubin & Kleyner, 2007

An American girl dreams of soccer and Mardi Gras while her Nigerian parents wait for their green cards; an organic seed distributor entraps an errant lover with a replica pre-Columbian Aztec artefact bought in Chicago; an instrument-gardener harvests the sound of a dead woman; a matchmaker faces failure unless she s prepared to offer herself; an ...

Secret Son
Laila Lalami

Algonquin Books, 2009

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 assumes a life he could only dream of: a famous and influential father, his own penthouse apartment, ...

Season of Migration to the North (New York Review Books Classics)

Tayeb Salih

NYRB Classics, 2009

Read Heart of Darkness First
It's interesting to read reviews of this short novel. Half of the readers see it as a satirical version of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". The other half - who perhaps have never read Conrad - think it's a vain, silly (although lyrically written) tale of a ...

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

Laila Lalami

Harvest Books, 2006

The Audacity of Hope
This is the finest work on modern Morocco that I have ever read. It shows the country as it is, when in an extremely rapidly changing culture almost every other well written book on Morocco shows the country as it once was. I was moved for the extremely well-written ...