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Homeland Elegies: A Novel Sep 15, 2020

by Ayad Akhtar

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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

A "profound and provocative" new work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an immigrant father and his son 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.

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American Dervish: A Novel Jan 9, 2012

by Ayad Akhtar

( 315 )

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From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world.

Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes.

American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.

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Disgraced: A Play Sep 10, 2013

by Ayad Akhtar

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

From the author of Homeland Elegies, a "sparkling and combustible" play (Bloomberg) about identity in America after September 11.

"Everyone has been told that politics and religion are two subjects that should be off-limits at social gatherings. But watching these characters rip into these forbidden topics, there's no arguing that they make for ear-tickling good theater." --New York Times

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Junk: A Play Nov 7, 2017

by Ayad Akhtar

( 9 )

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From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a fast-paced play that exposes the financial deal making behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s.

Set in 1985, Junk tells the story of Robert Merkin, resident genius of the upstart investment firm Sacker Lowell. Hailed as "America's Alchemist," his proclamation that "debt is an asset" has propelled him to a dizzying level of success. By orchestrating the takeover of a massive steel manufacturer, Merkin intends to do the "deal of the decade," the one that will rewrite all the rules. Working on his broadest canvas to date, Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar chronicles the lives of men and women engaged in financial civil war: insatiable investors, threatened workers, killer lawyers, skeptical journalists, and ambitious federal prosecutors. Although it's set 40 years in the past, this is a play about the world we live in right now; a world in which money became the only thing of real value.

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The Invisible Hand Aug 25, 2015

by Ayad Akhtar

( 13 )

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A "tense, provocative" play (Seattle Times) from the author of Homeland Elegies and the Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced -- a chilling examination of how far we will go to survive and the consequences of the choices we make.

In remote Pakistan, Nick Bright awaits his fate. A successful financial trader, Nick is kidnapped by an Islamic militant group, but with no one negotiating his release, he agrees to an unusual plan. He will earn his own ransom by helping his captors manipulate and master the world commodities and currency markets.

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Homeland Elegien: Roman (German Edition) Oct 12, 2020

by Ayad Akhtar , Dirk van Gunsteren

( 48 )

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„Genau der Schriftsteller, den wir brauchen.“ Daniel Kehlmann

„Leidenschaftlich, verstörend, fesselnd.“ Salman Rushdie

Ayad Akthars "Homeland Elegien" ist ein intelligenter Roman über den zerrütteten Zustand des heutigen Amerikas. Über ein Amerika, in dem die Ideale der amerikanischen Demokratie den Göttern der Finanzindustrie geopfert wurden und eine TV-Persönlichkeit Präsident werden konnte.
Es ist ein persönliches Memoir über die Erfahrungen von im Westen lebenden Muslimen, insbesondere nach 9/11, und eine Reflexion über die Möglichkeit einer westlichen muslimischen Identität.
Es ist eine manchmal komische, manchmal bewegende, manchmal konfliktreiche Einwandererfamiliengeschichte und die intellektuelle Biografie eines künstlerischen Ausnahmetalents.
Und nicht zuletzt erzählt der Roman mit großem Esprit und aus ungewohnter Perspektive globale Zeitgeschichte, vom Konflikt zwischen Pakistan und Indien über den ersten Afghanistan Krieg bis hin zu Osama bin Laden und dem islamistischen Terror der jüngsten Gegenwart.

Other Formats: Hardcover

Disgraced (Modern Classics) Jan 14, 2021

by Ayad Akhtar

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“A continuously engaging, vitally engaged play about thorny questions of identity and religion in the contemporary world, with an accent on the incendiary topic of how radical Islam and the terrorism it inspires have affected the public discourse.” New York Times

New York. Today. Corporate lawyer Amir Kapoor is happy, in love, and about to land the biggest career promotion of his life. But beneath the veneer, success has come at a price. When Amir and his artist wife, Emily, host an intimate dinner party at their Upper East Side apartment, what starts out as a friendly conversation soon escalates into something far more damaging.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2013, Disgraced premiered in Chicago before transferring to New York's Lincoln Center in 2012.

This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by J.T Rodgers.

Other Formats: Paperback , Audio CD

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