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Dec 11, 2020 · 357 pages ; 25 cm. A young Pakistani boy, whose parents left the fundamentalists behind when they came to America, finds transformation and a path to happiness through a family friend, Mina, who shows him the beauty and power of the Quran. Access-restricted-item. true.
Aug 22, 2020 · 288 pages ; 200 mm. Hayat Shah learns that Mina, his mother's oldest friend is leaving Pakistan to live with them in America, he is thrilled, but Hayat's father is less enthusiastic. He doesn't relish the idea of Mina's fervid devotion under his roof.
Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970) is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. He has received numerous accolades including the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as nominations for two Tony Awards. Akhtar is known as a playwright covering various themes including the American - Muslim experience, racism, religion, economics ...
A year after Donald Trump assumed office, Ayad Akhtar was at the American Academy in Rome, contemplating populism, the degradation of democracy, and ruinous civil strife.
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.
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Dec 17, 2020 · Ayad Akhtar is the author of the novels Homeland Elegies--named one of the ten best books of 2020 by the New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction--and American Dervish, published in over 20 languages.
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Jan 14, 2021 · Disgraced. Ayad Akhtar. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jan 14, 2021 - Drama - 104 pages. “A continuously engaging, vitally engaged play about thorny questions of identity and religion in the...
