I just read Harper’s very favorable review of Orhan Pamuk’s Snow and now the NY Times is also giving it a rave.
Art, its vanities and its detachment from consequences, is one of the author’s targets. But what marks Mr. Pamuk and his targets is that he stands alongside them to receive his own lethal arrows. And he does it with odd gaiety and compassion.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.