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Laila Lalami
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Morocco
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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
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September 2008
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Laila Lalami was born and raised in Morocco. Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, and was short-listed for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2006. Her debut collection of short stories, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, was published in 2005 to critical acclaim. Her first novel, Secret Son, will be published in April 2009. She lives in Los Angeles. Her website is www.lailalalami.com.
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Season of Migration to the North (New York Review Books Classics) by Tayeb Salih, Laila Lalami (Goodreads author) , Denys Johnson-Davies avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published 1970 14 editions |
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Hope & Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.82 — 180 ratings — published 2005 4 editions |
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Secret Son by Laila Lalami (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.61 — 88 ratings — published 2009 |
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Secret Son by Laila Lalami (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010 |
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HI Laila,
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.
