The Moor's Account [Paperback]

**PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST**
**NOMINATED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE**
**WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD**

ANew York TimesNotable Book
AWall Street JournalTop 10 Book of the Year
An NPR Great Read of 2014
AKirkusBest Fiction Book of the Year

In these pages, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America: Mustafa al-Zamori, called Estebanico. The slave of a Spanish conquistador, Estebanico sails for the Americas with his master, Dorantes, as part of a danger-laden expedition to Florida. Within a year, Estebanico is one of only four crew members to survive.

As he journeys across America with his Spanish companions, the Old World roles of slave and master fall away, and Estebanico remakes himself as an equal, a healer, and a remarkable storyteller. His tale illuminates the ways in which our narratives can transmigrate into history—and how storytelling can offer a chance at redemption and survival.

“An exciting tale of wild hopes, divided loyalties, and highly precarious fortunes.” —The New Yorker

“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 Rushdie

“Stunning. . . .The Moor’s Accountsheds light on all of the possible the New World exploration stories that didn’t make history.” —Huffington Post
 
“Lalami has once again shown why she is one of her generation’s most gifted writers.” —Reza Aslan, author of Zealot

“Compelling. . . . Necessary. . . . Laila Lalami’s mesmerizing The Moor’s Account presents us a historical fiction that feels something like a pll³Z