Parametry
- 301 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
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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' VIET THANH NGUYENThere 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; Efraín, 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 unpredictable forms, is born.
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The Other Americans, Laila Lalami
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- Rok vydání
- 2019
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- Titul
- The Other Americans
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Laila Lalami
- Vydavatel
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Rok vydání
- 2019
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 301
- ISBN10
- 1526606690
- ISBN13
- 9781526606693
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Detektivky & Thriller, Romantika, Thrillery, Současná literatura, Láska, Rodina, Současná romantika, USA, Tajemství, Rasa, rasismus, Manželství, Tajemné, mysteriózní, Pomsta, Policie, Otec, Havárie, Žárlivost, Skandály a aféry, Pouště, Závist
- Hodnocení
- 3,9 z 5
- Anotace
- 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' VIET THANH NGUYENThere 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; Efraín, 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 unpredictable forms, is born.