Laila Lalami

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 ‘A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future’ JENNIFER EGAN‘So cleverly conceived, so relevant, that everyone should read it and sweat’ THE TIMES‘Extraordinary’ RUMAAN ALAM‘Absolutely unputdownable’ SANDRA NEWMAN Sara is returning home from a conference abroad when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration...

Winner of the American Book Award Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 A Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 'An absorbing story' - SALMAN RUSHDIE 'Rich, vivid and gripping' - GUARDIAN 'Feels at once historical and contemporary' - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In 1527, hundreds of settlers arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida and claimed...

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 TimesLate 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...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 ‘A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future’ JENNIFER EGAN‘So cleverly conceived, so relevant, that everyone should read it and sweat’ THE TIMES‘Extraordinary’ RUMAAN ALAM‘Absolutely unputdownable’ SANDRA NEWMAN Sara is returning home from a conference abroad when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration...