×
Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.
For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now.

Hardcover
Members save with free shipping everyday!
See details
See details
14.0
In Stock
Overview
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 FictionThis "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).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.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
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780316496421 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date: | 09/15/2020 |
Pages: | 368 |
Sales rank: | 145 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d) |
About the Author

Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Ayad is the author of American Dervish (Little, Brown & Co.), published in over 20 languages and named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012, as well as the forthcoming novel, Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown & Co.) in September 2020. As a playwright, he has written Junk (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony nomination); Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination); The Who & The What (Lincoln Center); 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. Among other honors, Akhtar is the recipient of the Steinberg Playwrighting Award, the Nestroy Award, the Erwin Piscator Award, as well as fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, MacDowell, the Sundance Institute, and Yaddo, where he serves as a Board Director. Additionally, Ayad is a Board Trustee at PEN/America and New York Theatre Workshop. He lives in New York City.
Customer Reviews
Related Searches
Explore More Items
This exquisitely giftable anthology of poems about age and aging reveals the wisdom of trailblazing ...
This exquisitely giftable anthology of poems about age and aging reveals the wisdom of trailblazing
writers who found power and growth later in life.At eighty-two, the novelist Penelope Lively wrote: Our experience is one unknown to most of humanity, over ...
How did die become kick the bucket, underwear become unmentionables, and having an affair become ...
How did die become kick the bucket, underwear become unmentionables, and having an affair become
hiking the Appalachian trail? Originally used to avoid blasphemy, honor taboos, and make nice, euphemisms have become embedded in the fabric of our language. Euphemania ...
Stalwart journalist Jack McEvoythe hero of The Poet and The Scarecrowtracks a serial killer who ...
Stalwart journalist Jack McEvoythe hero of The Poet and The Scarecrowtracks a serial killer who
has been operating completely under the radaruntil nowin this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down ...
The Good Body is a triumphant blend of mordant humour and heartbreak. It tells the ...
The Good Body is a triumphant blend of mordant humour and heartbreak. It tells the
comic and poignant story of a retired pro-hockey ruffian named Bobby Bonaduce who is stubbornly ignoring a disease - multiple sclerosis - that may be ...
An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantanamo ...
An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantanamo
detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never ...
Joaquín, mientras ve jugar a sus propios hijos, recuerda un viaje que hizo en su ...
Joaquín, mientras ve jugar a sus propios hijos, recuerda un viaje que hizo en su
infancia en compañía de su padre. Viajan hacia el sur en el coche. Se dirigen a la casa donde vive una tía del niño. El ...
Genau der Schriftsteller, den wir brauchen. Daniel Kehlmann Leidenschaftlich, verstörend, fesselnd. Salman Rushdie Ayad Akthars ...
Genau der Schriftsteller, den wir brauchen. Daniel Kehlmann Leidenschaftlich, verstörend, fesselnd. Salman Rushdie Ayad Akthars
Homeland Elegien ist ein intelligenter Roman über den zerrütteten Zustand des heutigen Amerikas. Über ein Amerika, in dem die Ideale der amerikanischen Demokratie den ...
From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a fast-paced play that exposes the financial
deal making behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s. Set in 1985, Junk tells the story of Robert Merkin, resident genius of the ...