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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Moor's Account: A Novel (edizione 2014)di Laila Lalami (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Another based-on-reality historical fiction, this one imagines the life and times of a Moorish slave who was one of only four men to survive an early Spanish expedition to Florida. I found Mustafa a sometimes irritatingly passive protagonist, and I felt like Lalami hammered her theme of the power of storytelling a little too hard at times, but her writing is gorgeous and this was an enjoyable reading experience. ( ) This historical novel tells the story of the failed Navarez expedition from the mid-16th century. There were only four survivors who survived by walking all the way from Florida to Mexico. The novels provides an account of the survivor's journey told by Estevanico, an enslaved North-African Moor. The novel is fascinating and is very critical of the early Spanish explorers. I overall enjoyed this very much, the writing was excellent and it was about a part of history I don 't know much about. The Narvaez expedition set out to find gold in La Florida(which apparently encompasses much of the modern Southern US). The story is told from the point of view of a Moor slave, interspersed with his own life story and how he came to be a slave in Spain. The story is very skillfully told and the weaving back and forth makes sense but it did start to get bogged down a bit as the expedition falls apart and I could not really keep track of all of the members of the group. I though the telling of the Old and New World encounter was well handled and the certainly the greed for gold drove so many horrible actions. I began to loose the thread more when the survivors begin to travel among various tribes and the stay in Mexico though overall it seemed to end on an enigmatic but hopeful note. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy and famous as Hernán Cortés. But from the moment the Narváez expedition landed in Florida, it faced peril--navigational errors, disease, starvation, as well as resistance from indigenous tribes. Within a year there were only four survivors: the expedition's treasurer, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; a Spanish nobleman named Alonso del Castillo Maldonado; a young explorer named Andrés Dorantes de Carranza; and Dorantes's Moroccan slave, Mustafa al-Zamori, whom the three Spaniards called Estebanico. These four survivors would go on to make a journey across America that would transform them from proud conquis-tadores to humble servants, from fearful outcasts to faith healers. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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