Un soir de printemps, Driss Guerraoui quitte le diner dont il est propriétaire. Au moment de traverser une intersection sombre de sa ville en Californie, dans le désert du Mojave, il est tué par un chauffard. Seul un homme est témoin de cette scène : Efraín Aceves, un père de famille d'origine mexic...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2019 'A moving and exceptionally rich portrait of a modern American community' SUNDAY TIMES 'Rich, polyphonic. Accumulates a kind of revelatory power' OBSERVER 'A provocative and gripping novel by a gifted writer' JOHN BOYNE 'Confirms Lalami's reputation ...

Deux hommes et deux femmes, candidats à l'immigration clandestine, échappent à la noyade en essayant de rejoindre les côtes espagnoles. Qu'est-ce qui les a poussés à entreprendre ce voyage au péril de leur vie ? À quelle existence rêvent-ils, au-delà de ce rivage européen ? Les réponses se dévoilent...

In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a cr...

When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past... Casablanca's 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 ...

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2019 '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' ...

In the spirit of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," Lalami's powerful first novel explores the struggle for identity, the need for family, and the desperation that overtakes ordinary lives in a country divided by class, politics, and religion. ...

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In 1527 the Spanish conquistador P??nfilo de Narv??ez arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida with hundreds of settlers, and claimed the region for Spain. Almost immediately, the expedition was decimated by a combination of navigational errors, disease, starvation and fierce resistance from indig...