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American Dervish
- Author
- Ayad Akhtar
- Narrator
- Ayad Akhtar
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 9 January 2012
- Run Time
- 9 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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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Details
- Author
- Ayad Akhtar
- Narrator
- Ayad Akhtar
- Duration
- 9 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 January 2012
- ISBN
- 9781611135398
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age
Synopsis
From Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, a stirring and explosive debut 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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