The Moor`s Account, History as Story

Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program
at UCR presents
A Book Reading & End of Year Event: Monday, May 18, 4:45-6:30, Humanities (HMNSS) 1500
Laila Lalami ( Creative Writing),
The Moor's Account, History as Story
(A Finalist for Pulitzer Prize)
" Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish
conquistadors 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 Rushdie