The Moor's Account
A Cultural, Fiction, Africa book. As the days passed, I began to look upon my fate with new eyes. I...
“Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.”Salman RushdieIn 1527 the Spanish conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida with hundreds of settlers, and claimed the region for Spain. Almost immediately, the expedition was decimated by a combination of navigational errors, disease, starvation and fierce resistance from indigenous tribes. Within a year, only four survivors remained: three noblemen and a Moroccan slave called “Estebanico”.The official record, set down after a reunion with Spanish forces in 1536, contains only the three freemen’s accounts. The fourth, to which the title of Laila Lalami’s masterful novel alludes, is Estebanico’s own.Lalami gives us Estebanico as history never did: as Mustafa, the vibrant merchant from Azemmur forced into slavery and a new name,...
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- Pages: 430 pages
- ISBN: 9781859644270 / 1859644279
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A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too. Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account // Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller. Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account // Nothing new has ever happened to a son of Adam, she said. Everything has already been lived and everything has already been told. If only we listened to the stories. Laila Lalami, The Moor's Account //
This book was a pleasure to read. A first-person account from a Muslim slave, dragged over the ocean by his Spanish master, to explore North America.I love stories about Native Americans, specifically during the period of time when they're first meeting the white interlopers that eventually...well...you know. I also love survival tales.... I was looking forward to reading this book when I first heard that Laila Lalami would write a fictionalized account of Estebanico as I knew she would provide the necessary insight on Morocco and a Moroccan point-of-view of the 1500s. This book exceeded my expectations. There are many accounts of the Narvaez expedition and what happened... I worried that I had made a huge mistake with this audiobook in its first few minutes.See, right off the bat, Mustafa ibn Muhammad ibn Abdussalam al-Zamoris verbose introduction to his account sets the stage for a historical fiction novel with really pretty prose. The rub: Im relatively new to the audiobook scene, but the more interesting...
