Homeland Elegies

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Ayad Akhtar es novelista y dramaturgo. Su trabajo ha sido traducido a más de 24 idiomas. Es ganador del Premio Pulitzer de Drama y un Premio de Literatura de la Academia Estadounidense de Artes y Letras. Entre otros honores, Akhtar ha recibido el premio Steinberg Drawrighting, el premio Nestroy, el premio Erwin Piscator, así como becas de la Academia Americana en Roma, MacDowell, el Instituto Sundance y Yaddo. Además, Ayad es miembro de la junta directiva de PEN / America y New York Theatre Workshop. Vive en Nueva York. x{0026}lt;/p