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The Moor's Account - by Laila Lalami (Paperback)

The Moor's Account - by  Laila Lalami (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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."--Amazon.com<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>**PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST**<br>**NOMINATED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE**<br>**WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD** <p/>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book<br>A <i>Wall Street Journal</i> Top 10 Book of the Year<br>An NPR Great Read of 2014<br>A <i>Kirkus </i>Best Fiction Book of the Year <p/></b> 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. <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"An exciting tale of wild hopes, divided loyalties, and highly precarious fortunes." --<i>The New Yorker</i> <p/>"An absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth." --Salman Rushdie <p/>"Stunning. . . . <i>The Moor's Account</i> sheds light on all of the possible the New World exploration stories that didn't make history." --<i>Huffington Post</i> <p/> "Lalami has once again shown why she is one of her generation's most gifted writers." --Reza Aslan, author of <i>Zealot<br></i><br>"Compelling. . . . Necessary. . . . Laila Lalami's mesmerizing <i>The Moor's Account</i> presents us a historical fiction that feels something like a plural totality . . . a narrative that braids points of view so intricately that they become one even as we're constantly reminded of the separate and often contrary strands that render the whole." --<i>The Los Angeles Review of Books<br></i><br> "Richly rewarding." --NPR <p/> "A bold and exhilarating bid to give a real-life figure muzzled by history the chance to have his say in fiction." --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> <p/> "[A] rich novel based on an actual, ill-fated 16th century Spanish expedition to Florida. . . . Offers a pungent alternative history that muses on the ambiguous power of words to either tell the truth or reshape it according to our desires." --<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/> "Estebanico is a superb storyteller, capable of sensitive character appraisals and penetrating ethnographic detail." --<i>The Wall Street Journal<br></i><br> "Feels at once historical and contemporary. . . . For Lalami, storytelling is a primal struggle over power between the strong and the weak, between good and evil, and against forgetting. . . . Lalami sees the story [of Estebanico] as a form of moral and spiritual instruction that can lead to transcendence." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/> "Meticulously researched and inventive. . . . Those interested in the history of the Spanish colonization of the Americas will find much to like in <i>The Moor's Account</i>, as will lovers of good yarns of faraway lands and times." --<i>The Seattle Times</i> <p/> "Excellent historical fiction. . . . The way the Moor's account differs from the Spaniards is amazing. It's a play on perspective in more ways than one." --<i>Ebony <br></i><br> "Artfully conveys the politics and power dynamics of bondage. . . . Eloquently examines the subjectivity of narrative and the creation and manipulation of the truth. . . . With this magnificent novel, Lalami, through fiction, has penned a revelation and tribute to truth." --<i>The Millions<br></i><br> "Tremendous and powerful, <i>The Moor's Account</i> is one of the finest historical novels I've encountered in a while. It rings with thunder!" --Gary Shteyngart <p/> "Laila Lalami's radiant, arrestingly vivid prose instantly draws us into the world of the first black slave in the New World whose name we know--Estebanico. A bravura performance of imagination and empathy, <i>The Moor's Account</i> reverberates long after the final page." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr. </p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Laila Lalami is the author of the short story collection <i>Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, </i> which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and the novel <i>Secret Son, </i> which was on the Orange Prize long list. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the <i>Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, </i>and <i>The New York Times, </i>and in many anthologies. She is the recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Lannan Residency Fellowship and is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles. <p/> www.lailalalami.com</p>

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