Conditional Citizens
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A New York Times Editors' Choice • Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, L.A. Times
What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to US citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of American rights, liberties, and protections.
"Sharp, bracingly clear essays." (Entertainment Weekly)
Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth - such as national origin, race, and gender - that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today.
Lalami poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation, with the result that a caste system is maintained that keeps the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens, she argues, are all the people with whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.
Brilliantly argued and deeply personal, Conditional Citizens weaves together Lalami’s own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture.
©2020 Laila Lalami (P)2020 Random House AudioInterview: Laila Lalami Stands for America's 'Conditional Citizens'
- Conditional Citizens
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- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 708
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 621
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 618
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant—at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't bother - there are so many better stories
- De Robin Davis en 10-22-19
De: Laila Lalami
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The Moor's Account
- De: Laila Lalami
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 761
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 656
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 655
In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527 the conquistador Pnfilo de Narvez sailed from the port of Sanlcar de Barrameda with a crew of 600 men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hernn Corts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Terrific read evoking 16th century New World life
- De William en 11-04-15
De: Laila Lalami
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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
- De: Laila Lalami
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 4 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
As four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain, author Laila Lalami asks: What has driven them to risk their lives? And will the rewards prove to be worth the danger? There's Murad, a gentle, unemployed man who's been reduced to hustling tourists around Tangier; Halima, who's fleeing her drunken husband and the slums of Casablanca; Aziz, who must leave behind his devoted wife in hope of securing work in Spain; and Faten, a student and religious fanatic whose faith is at odds with an influential man determined to destroy her future.
De: Laila Lalami
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The Dream Hotel
- A Novel
- De: Laila Lalami
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo, Barton Caplan
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 115
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 115
Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The next parable of the sower
- De Jess en 03-18-25
De: Laila Lalami
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Secret Son
- De: Laila Lalami
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that 19-year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, he dreams of escape - until, one day, the father he thought dead turns out to be very much alive and whisks him from the slums into the luxurious life of Casablanca's elite. But as he leaves the poverty of his childhood behind him, he comes up against a starkly unglittering reality...
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4 out of 5 stars
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Intimate story of identity and family
- De Steve en 02-03-23
De: Laila Lalami
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I See You've Called in Dead
- A Novel
- De: John Kenney
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a “far more interesting” man. Yes, he goes on a particularly awful blind date with a woman who brings her ex. And yes, he has too many glasses of Scotch one night and proceeds to pen and publish his own obituary. The newspaper wants to fire him. But now the company’s system has him listed as dead. And the company can’t fire a dead person. The ensuing fallout forces him to realize that life may be actually worth living.
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5 out of 5 stars
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wonderful book. Comic edge but full of heart
- De Amazon Customer en 04-10-25
De: John Kenney
Blew my mind!
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Very thought provoking.
Nailed it
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All Americans should read this…
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A must read!
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Well researched and cited essays
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MUST LISTEN!
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Everyone should listen/read this book
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Very insightful
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A negative and bitter and ungrateful naturalized American citizen
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