Homeland Elegies book by Ayad Akhtar
By Ayad AkhtarHomeland Elegies book by Ayad Akhtar
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and author of American Dervish, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging -- in post-Trump America, and with each other. Homeland Elegies is an astonishing and deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nation coming apart at the seams. Drawn from Akhtar's life as the son of Muslim immigrants, it blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of belonging and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque adventure -- at its heart, it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a nation in which debt has ruined countless lives and our ideals have been sacrificed to the gods of finance, where a TV personality is president and immigrants live in fear, and where the unhealed wounds of 9/11 continue to wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Davos to guerilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan. All the while, he spares no one -- neither himself, nor his loved ones, nor his fellow Americans -- any indignity in order to make better sense of it all. Published By on 2020-09-08
Book details
- Paperback
- 384 pages
- English
- 0316496421
- 9780316496421
About Ayad Akhtar
ayad akhtar (born october 28, 1970) is an american playwright, novelist, and screenwriter of pakistani heritage, awarded the 2013 pulitzer prize for drama. Read More about Ayad Akhtar
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