Homeland Elegies: A Barack Obama Favourite Book - Couverture rigide

Akhtar, Ayad

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1472276884 ISBN 13 : 9781472276889

Editeur : Tinder Press, 2020

Synopsis

An American son and his immigrant father search for belonging - in post-Trump America, and in their relationship with each other

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ayad Akhtar is a playwright, novelist, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of AMERICAN DERVISH, published in over 20 languages and named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012. His plays include Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination) and The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier, and Evening Standard nominations). As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for The War Within.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A deeply personal novel of identity and belonging 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 satire, part picaresque, at its heart it is the story of a father and son, and the country they call home.

Ranging from the heartland towns of America to palatial suites in Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, Akhtar forges a narrative voice that is original as it is exuberantly entertaining. This is a world in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear and the unhealed wounds of 9/11 continue to wreak havoc. HOMELAND ELEGIES is a novel written in love and anger, which spares no one, least of all the author himself.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tinder Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472276884
• ISBN 13: 9781472276889
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
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• Personne responsable: non disponible