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Homeland Elegies

✍ Scribed by Ayad Akhtar


Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Weight
693 KB
Edition
First edition
Category
Fiction
City
United States.
ISBN
0316703834

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✦ 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 Rushdie A 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 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...

✦ Subjects


United States


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