pdf/epub Homeland Elegies By Ayad Akhtar

PDF Homeland Elegies By Ayad Akhtar
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Author : Ayad Akhtar
Pages : 368 pages
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 50358133
ISBN-13 : 9780316496421
Formats: PDF, EPub, Kindle, Audiobook

Homeland Elegies By Ayad Akhtar
Books Synopsis :
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.
"Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." - Salman
RushdieA deeply personal work about hope and
identity 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 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 country 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
nation's unhealed wounds of 9/11 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
Central Europe to guerilla lookouts in the mountains
of Afghanistan, and spares no one -- least of all
himself -- in the process.