Am I the only one who can’t quite make sense of this Village Voice piece about Marcel Proust? It looks like a review of a recent translation of Proust’s A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleur but there are two many em-dashes and bizarre changes in subjects with each new paragraph. Oh, and I guess there’s also a quickie review of a recent translation of Céleste Albaret’s biography of the man.
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.