Homeland elegies: a novel
(Book)
This "profound and provocative" work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish followsan immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews).
"Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman Rushdie
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.
?Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds 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 guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one—least of all himself—in the process.
One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020
Finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
A Best Book of 2020 * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly
Authors, American -- Fiction.
Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
Children of immigrants -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Immigrant families -- United States -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction.
Muslim families -- United States -- Fiction.
Pakistani Americans -- Fiction.
Notes
Akhtar, A. (2021). Homeland elegies: a novel. New York, Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Akhtar, Ayad. 2021. Homeland Elegies: A Novel. New York, Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Akhtar, Ayad, Homeland Elegies: A Novel. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
MLA Citation (style guide)Akhtar, Ayad. Homeland Elegies: A Novel. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Overture: To America -- A chronology of the events -- Family politics. On the anniversary of Trump's first year in office -- On autobiography; or, Bin Laden -- In the names of the prophet ... -- Scranton memoirs. God's country -- Riaz; or, The Merchant of Debt -- Pox Americana. Of love and death -- On Pottersville -- Langford v. Reliant; or, How my father's American story ends -- Free speech: A coda. | |
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