Homeland Elegies

Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 368pg
8 Jul 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781472276896
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' Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable' Salman Rushdie' Urgent, intimate. . . does nothing short of laying bare the broken heart of our American dream turned reality TV nightmare' A. M. HomesAn American son and his immigrant father search for belonging and reconciliation in the age of Trump. A deeply personal novel of identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, HOMELAND ELEGIES blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of belonging and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part satire, part picaresque, at its heart it is the story of a father and son, and the country they call home. Ranging from the heartland towns of America to palatial suites in Davos to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, Akhtar forges a narrative voice that is original as it is exuberantly entertaining. This is a world in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear and the unhealed wounds of 9/11 continue to wreak havoc. HOMELAND ELEGIES is a novel written in love and anger, which spares no one, least of all the author himself.
A triumph. Akhtar rages, he sings, he indicts, he falls in love, he sorrows, he dreams, he mourns, he transcribes! And finally he transmutes injustice into the finest artExuberant, insightful, and wickedly entertaining. . . a deeply moving father and son story that anyone wanting to know how we as a nation got where we are today - and into what dark wood we might be heading tomorrow - should readAstonishing. . . absolutely brilliantAt the core of this flashing, kinetic coil of stories - part One Thousand and One Nights, part reality TV - is a passionate, wrenching portrayal of Americans exiled into ' otherness' by a post-9/11 World
Ayad Akhtar is a playwright, novelist, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of AMERICAN DERVISH, published in over 20 languages and named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012. His plays include Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination) and The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier, and Evening Standard nominations). As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for The War Within.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781472276896
Published: 8 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Tinder Press
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 368

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