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Bloomsbury presents The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami, read by Frankie Corzo and Barton Caplan ‘A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future’ JENNIFER EGAN ‘Extraordinary’ RUMAAN ALAM ‘Absolutely unputdownable’ SANDRA NEWMAN Sara is returning home from a conference...

Bloomsbury presents The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami, read by Neil Shah. * 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...

Late 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 his death bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; his widow Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country....