Bøker av Ayad Akhtar

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

Hayat Shah er født i USA av pakistanske foreldre. Faren hans ønsker å leve så sekulært som mulig, mens mora ikke ønsker å integreres i det amerikanske samfunnet. Så kommer moras bestevenninne fra Pakistan for å bo hos dem for å flykte fra et katastrofalt ekteskap. Hun er ei from kvinne, og bringer Koranen og den muslimske troen inn i livet til Hayat. Da hun begynner å gå ut med en mann blir Hayat forvirret og sjalu, og han ender med å gjøre noe som får katastrofale følger for dem han elsker.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced, a fast-paced economic thriller that exposes the financial deal making behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s

This "beautiful novel . . . has echoes of The Great Gatsby": an immigrant father and his son search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Dwight Garner, New York Times).One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020A Best Book of 2020 * Entertainment Weekly * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly * NPR * The Economist * Shelf Awareness * Library Journal * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * SlateFinalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionA 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.Pulitzer Prize-winning author 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."Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman Rushdie

A stirring and explosive debut novel about an American Muslim family's struggle with faith and belonging. From Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar.