Homeland Elegies
A Barack Obama Favourite Book
$22.51
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
13 July 2021
Summary
A New York Times, Washington Post and Economist Book of the Year
‘I read it in a fever, swept up in the kind of rapture you fall into when your most audacious friend kicks off on a hilarious, outrageous, but deeply sincere rant’ Torrey Peters, Guardian Books of the Summer
‘A beautiful novel about an American son and his immigrant father that has echoes of THE GREAT GATSBY’ *New York Times*
A deeply p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472276896 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1472276892 |
| Author: | Ayad Akhtar |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Tinder Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 32mm |
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Critics Review
An urgent, intimate hybrid of memoir and fiction, HOMELAND ELEGIES thrusts us into the heart of a father-son relationship and in the process - improbably - does nothing short of laying bear the broken heart of our American dream turned reality TV nightmare… Stunning * A M Homes *
A beautiful novel about an American son and his immigrant father that has echoes of The Great Gatsby * New York Times *
Ayad Akhtar offers up his heart and life with an honesty that astonishes. Never have I experienced such a reading thrill * Maria Semple *
Perhaps the best American novel I have read in several years – Richard Flanagan
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 *
A triumph. Akhtar rages, he sings, he indicts, he falls in love, he sorrows, he dreams, he mourns, he transcribes! - and finally he transmutes injustice into the sublimest art * Joshua Ferris *
The astonishing work of an absolutely brilliant writer. With exquisite prose and lacerating honesty, Ayad Akhtar reveals the intersections of art, finance, race, religion, academia and empire * Philip Klay *
This is the book of the year * Oprah Magazine *
Part fiction, part memoir, and all brilliant * Ron Charles *
Provocative and urgent… a revelation * Publishers Weekly *
About The Author
Ayad Akhtar
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.
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