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Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar

R355.00

A “profound and provocative” (Kirkus Reviews) 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.

A passionate, wrenching portrayal of Americans exiled into otherness by a post 9/11 world ~ Jennifer Egan

The challenge of remembering one’s identity in a racist culture is at the heart of Akhtar’s remarkable new book, Homeland Elegies… It would not surprise me if it wins him a second Pulitzer Prize ~ Washington Post

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Category: New Fiction
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Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar

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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