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Homeland Elegies
- Author
- Ayad Akhtar
- Narrator
- Ayad Akhtar
- Publisher
- Headline
- Publish Date
- 8 September 2020
- Run Time
- 10 hours 19 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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'Outstanding... it is hard to convey the breadth and brilliance of this work' Observer
'A beautiful novel about an American son and his immigrant father that has echoes of THE GREAT GATSBY' New York Times
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.
Critics Review
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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
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A beautiful novel about an American son and his immigrant father that has echoes of The Great Gatsby
New York Times
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Ayad Akhtar offers up his heart and life with an honesty that astonishes. Never have I experienced such a reading thrill
Maria Semple
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Perhaps the best American novel I have read in several years
Richard Flanagan
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A passionate, wrenching portrayal of Americans exiled into otherness by a post 9/11 world
Jennifer Egan
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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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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
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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
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This is the book of the year
Oprah Magazine
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Part fiction, part memoir, and all brilliant
Ron Charles
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Provocative and urgent... a revelation
Publishers Weekly
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Details
- Author
- Ayad Akhtar
- Narrator
- Ayad Akhtar
- Duration
- 10 hours 19 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 September 2020
- ISBN
- 9781472276858
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Headline
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, History: specific events and topics, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Terrorism, armed struggle, Narrative theme: politics / economics, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: identity / belonging
Synopsis
AN ECONOMIST, NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Outstanding... it is hard to convey the breadth and brilliance of this work' Observer'A beautiful novel about an American son and his immigrant father that has echoes of THE GREAT GATSBY' New York TimesA 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.
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