The Resource The other Americans, Laila Lalami
The other Americans, Laila Lalami
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The item The other Americans, Laila Lalami represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Moor's Account, a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. 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. Nora Guerraoui, a jazz composer, returns home to a small town in the Mojave after hearing that her father, owner of a popular restaurant there, has been killed in a suspicious hit-and-run car accident. Told by multiple narrators--Nora herself, Jeremy (the Iraq war veteran with whom she develops an intimacy), widow Maryam, Efrain (an immigrant witness to the accident who refuses to get involved for fear of deportation), Coleman (the police investigator), and Driss (the dead man himself), The Other Americans deftly explores one family's secrets and hypocrisies even as it offers a portrait of Americans riven by race, class, and religion, living side by side, yet ignorant of the vicissitudes that each tribe, as it were, faces"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 301 pages
- Note
- First published in 2019 in the USA by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
- Isbn
- 9781526606693
- Label
- The other Americans
- Title
- The other Americans
- Statement of responsibility
- Laila Lalami
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Moor's Account, a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. 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. Nora Guerraoui, a jazz composer, returns home to a small town in the Mojave after hearing that her father, owner of a popular restaurant there, has been killed in a suspicious hit-and-run car accident. Told by multiple narrators--Nora herself, Jeremy (the Iraq war veteran with whom she develops an intimacy), widow Maryam, Efrain (an immigrant witness to the accident who refuses to get involved for fear of deportation), Coleman (the police investigator), and Driss (the dead man himself), The Other Americans deftly explores one family's secrets and hypocrisies even as it offers a portrait of Americans riven by race, class, and religion, living side by side, yet ignorant of the vicissitudes that each tribe, as it were, faces"--
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1968-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lalami, Laila
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Murder
- Murder
- Death
- Hit-and-run drivers
- Moroccans
- Immigrants
- Family secrets
- California
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The other Americans, Laila Lalami
- Note
- First published in 2019 in the USA by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065272531
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 301 pages
- Isbn
- 9781526606693
- Lccn
- be2019017207
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1057656743
- Label
- The other Americans, Laila Lalami
- Note
- First published in 2019 in the USA by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000065272531
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 301 pages
- Isbn
- 9781526606693
- Lccn
- be2019017207
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1057656743
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