Homeland elegies / Ayad Akhtar.
Material type: TextSeries: Thorndike large print basic seriesPublisher: Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, 2021Copyright date: �2020Edition: Large print editionDescription: 565 pagesContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1432886487 (hardcover)
- 9781432886486 (hardcover)
- FIC
- PS3601.K53 H66 2021
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Meaford Public Library Large Print | Fiction | LP FIC Akhta (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 28540 |
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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