**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 identi
Homeland Elegies
β 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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β¦ 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...
β¦ Subjects
United States
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