The Moor's Account Condition:Well Read He devises clever maths riddles

He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her ten-year-old son

”—The Straits Times

ranging from his own backyard to some of the most difficult and dangerous places on Earth

You'll be surprised by what — and who — it finds there…‘This is a fantastic novel…runs as precisely as clockwork

a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo

The Moor's Account Condition:Well Read He devises clever maths riddlesIn 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