Laila Lalami

Gebundenes Buch

The Dream Hotel

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025

Beschreibung

A gripping, inventive and terrifying speculative mystery about privacy, freedom and survival â from the Pulitzer Prize and Booker Prize nominated author

Autor

Laila Lalami is the author of five books, including The Moor's Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent novel, The Other Americans , was a US national bestseller, won the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her books have been translated into twenty languages. Lalami's writing appears regularly in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Nation, Harper's, Guardian and New York Times. She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781526685193
• ISBN-10: 1526685191
• Artikelnr.: 72178123

Rezensionen

Reading The Dream Hotel is a physical experience: it's rare for a novel to induce so strong a sense of powerlessness and frustration ... In this sharp, sophisticated novel of forecasts and insightful takes, what I found most powerful was the great bewilderment that the characters share ... Perhaps you wouldn't ordinarily pick up a novel in search of an experience of confusion. But The Dream Hotel has a burning quality, both in its swift, consuming escalation – you can't look away – and in the clarity and purpose of what it shows