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Laila Lalami
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Introducing The Dream Hotel
If you have a smartphone, you’ll no doubt have had a moment when you realized that it knew more about you than you’d ever expected. Even though you’ve agreed to the terms of service, it still feels like a terrible violation of privacy. I wanted to push this technological surveillance to the limit in my new novel, The Dream Hotel. The story follows Sara Hussein, a museum archivist and busy mom who
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Season of Migration to the North (New York Review Books Classics)
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The Other Americans
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The Moor's Account
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Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
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Secret Son
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The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic
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The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
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Ploughshares Spring 2024 Guest-edited by Laila Lalami
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“Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sense of what we remember.”
― The Other Americans
― The Other Americans
“A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.”
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| Literary Fiction ...: Laila Lalami Essay | 1 | 23 | Sep 07, 2009 12:38PM | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Orange Prize Longlist includes Attica Locke & other Authors of Color | 16 | 43 | Apr 20, 2010 07:46PM | |
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I'm really glad that you got back. Your work sounds fantastic. I'm currently working on a political thriller set in Iran but will be starting one shortly based in Algeria. A French middle class filmmaker of Algerian origin gets permission to go to Algeria (during the civil conflict) to make a sequel to the classic movie The Battle of Algiers. He's also trying to find out what happened to his friend from University, a Kabyle Berber who was a staunch Stalinist before the collapse of the USSR who seems to have become an oil executive then been killed by Islamicist terrorists. The protagonist falls for his friend's sister then begins to realise that he isn't actually dead. Thematically, it's a remake of The Third Man by Carrol Reed, Graham Greene and Orson Wells with "Harry Lime" manipulating Islamic terrorism to drive the indigenous Berber population out of an oil rich part of Kabyle.