Other Americans - Lalami Laila
Laila Lalami
KORTE INHOUD
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 un...
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2019Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing UK320 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1526606690ISBN-13: 9781526606693Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Staat: Goed. Paperback. Staat: Zeer goed. Titel: The Other Americans. Jaar van uitgave: 2019. Taal: Engels. Lichte gebruik-/opslagsporen [Auteur: Laila Lalami] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing (Uk)] [Jaar: 2019] [Titel: The Other Americans]
