LAILA LALAMI

'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.

**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."

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...

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