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1. • Oct. 31, 2011

     • Review Posted Online: Oct. 31, 2011 Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 15, 2011
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     AMERICAN DERVISH - Kirkus Reviews

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   How did Akhtar model his book based on Tolstoy?

   • Akhtar modelled his book’s main sections on different Tolstoy novellas: “ The Kreutzer Sonata ,” for a sequence on sex and rage; and “Hadji Murad,” for the bravura middle section about a Muslim hedge-funder who deploys an ingenious financing scheme to avenge himself on American Islamophobia.

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   Why did Akhtar write disgraced?

   • Akhtar was thinking of “Othello” when he wrote “Disgraced,” but the play also owes a debt to the American literature of racial passing, in which characters who have managed to escape their origins fear that some unwelcome revelation will cast them out of the white world they have given everything to enter.

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   What books did Akhtar read in Rome?

   • In Rome, Akhtar devoted himself to the classics that lined the Academy’s library: Livy, Tacitus, Machiavelli. One afternoon, he opened Giacomo Leopardi’s “Canti,” from 1835, and read the book’s first poem, “To Italy”: but I don’t see the glory . . . An idea hit.

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   Is Akhtar a good writer?

   • Though Mr. Akhtar is a gifted writer, he can occasionally lapse into overly self-conscious or portentous phrasings: “Like the odor of masala lingering along our hallways, the expectation of unhappiness hovered in the air we breathed,” he writes at one point.

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   How long did Akhtar & his girlfriend live in New York?

   • Some people spent a decade or more at the institute. Akhtar lasted a year. He and his girlfriend, a Frenchwoman whom he had met while studying abroad, and later married, moved to New York, where they lived in a studio apartment on Second Avenue.

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   What did Akhtar think about finance?

   • Akhtar had grown up with his father’s idea of American culture: Coca-Cola, Lana Turner, the Kennedys, opportunity, abundance. But the more he learned about finance the more he came to believe that money was the root of the whole system. You can have what you can pay for: that was the social contract.

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   Sep 14, 2020 · His first novel, “American Dervish,” about the coming of age of an innocent Pakistani-American boy, was published in January, 2012, when he was forty-one, the same month that his first play,...

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   In his debut novel, Ayad Akhtar describes the coming of age of a young Pakistani-American in Milwaukee in the 1980s.

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   A stunning debut novel about an extended Sri Lankan family - a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary immigrant life, by turns darkly funny, sad, poignant, and uproariously beautiful. A major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant classes of Pakistan.

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   • Author: Megan Shaffer

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   American Dervish is a 2012 novel by Ayad Akhtar. The novel tells the story of a young Pakistani-American boy growing up in the American Midwest and his struggle with his identity and religion.

   • Author: Ayad Akhtar

   • Publish Year: 2012

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   Oct 1, 2012 · Ayad Akhtar's novel, American Dervish, begins with a prologue: Hayat, a Pakistani-American college student, is eating his first pork at a basketball game and exulting over his new freedom from the claims of religious faith. The novel then flashes back to Hayat's boyhood, his memories as a 12-year-old, living with his immigrant, but well-off ...

   • 3.7/5 (9.3K)
   • Format: Hardcover

   • Author: Ayad Akhtar

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   Feb 16, 2012 · American Dervish. by Ayad Akhtar. Ayad Akhtar’s debut novel centers on the dual nature of religion in both the everyday and extreme sense, revealing abhorrent ugliness and pure beauty in devout religiosity.

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   Jan 9, 2012 · Actor/playwright/filmmaker Akhtar makes a compelling debut with a family drama centered on questions of religious and ethnic identity. In 1980s Milwaukee, 10-year-old Hayat Shah lives in a troubled Pakistani-American household.