The Dream Hotel
Powerful, richly conceived ... Lalami skates along at the height of her powers as a writer of intelligent, complex characters ... Although it relies on a speculative technology for its plot, The Dream Hotel is astounding, elegantly constructed, character-driven fiction.
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Unsettling, meticulously observed ... Lalami has a knack for taking a flashy premise and underdelivering — that’s a compliment, by the way ... The claustrophobic authorial perspective, coupled with narration in the present tense, creates a creeping sense of disorientation ... Lalami has peered into the future and found that it looks like nothing so much as the present — which is to say dingy, corrupt, dumb, and dishonorable. And terrifying.
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Unsettling, meticulously observed ... Lalami has a knack for taking a flashy premise and underdelivering — that’s a compliment, by the way ... The claustrophobic authorial perspective, coupled with narration in the present tense, creates a creeping sense of disorientation ... Lalami has peered into the future and found that it looks like nothing so much as the present — which is to say dingy, corrupt, dumb, and dishonorable. And terrifying.
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