TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akhtar,Ayad
TI  - Homeland elegies
SN  - 9781472276872
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Tinder Press
KW  - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Children of immigrants
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1980-
KW  - Autobiographical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - An American son and his immigrant father search for belonging and reconciliation in the age of Trump. 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 Davos 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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