Parametre
- 320 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
Viac o knihe
Finalist for the National Book Award 2019 An Observer, Literary Review and Time Book of the Year 'One of the most affecting novels I have read. Subtle, wise and full of humanity' The Times 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, deeply divided by race, religion and class. As the characters tell their stories and the mystery unfolds, 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. 'A state-of-America family saga told as a slow-burn detective story' Observer 'Exceptionally rich' Sunday Times 'Confirms Lalami's reputation as one of our most sensitive interrogators, probing at the faultlines in family and the wider world' Financial Times
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The Other Americans, Laila Lalami
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 2020
- Väzba
- (mäkká)
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- Titul
- The Other Americans
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Laila Lalami
- Vydavateľ
- Bloomsbury UK
- Rok vydania
- 2020
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1526606712
- ISBN13
- 9781526606716
- Série
- Štítky
- Láska, Rodina, Súčasná literatúra, USA, Tajomstvá, Manželstvo, Tajomné, mysteriózne, Pomsta, Rasa, rasizmus, Polícia, Otec, Žiarlivosť, Havária, Skandály a aféry, Púšte, Závisť
- Hodnotenie
- 3,9 z 5
- Anotácia
- Finalist for the National Book Award 2019 An Observer, Literary Review and Time Book of the Year 'One of the most affecting novels I have read. Subtle, wise and full of humanity' The Times 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, deeply divided by race, religion and class. As the characters tell their stories and the mystery unfolds, 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. 'A state-of-America family saga told as a slow-burn detective story' Observer 'Exceptionally rich' Sunday Times 'Confirms Lalami's reputation as one of our most sensitive interrogators, probing at the faultlines in family and the wider world' Financial Times