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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › American_DervishAmerican Dervish - Wikipedia

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   Akhtar finished the novel in 2010 and sent it to various publishing companies. Little, Brown and Company bought the manuscript for a six-figure sum the day after they received it. [ 5 ]

   • Author: Ayad Akhtar

   • Publish Year: 2012

2. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2020/09/21An American Writer for an Age of Division

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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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3. www.npr.org › 2012/01/05 › 144678056Growing Up Muslim And Midwestern In 'Dervish' - NPR

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   Jan 5, 2012 · Playwright and author Ayad Akhtar draws from his own childhood in Wisconsin to tell the story of a 10-year-old Pakistani-American's romantic and religious awakening.

4. www.npr.org › 2012/01/17 › 145334491Ayad Akhtar: Writing About The Midwestern Muslim Experience - NPR

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   Jan 17, 2012 · Ayad Akhtar's debut novel, American Dervish, tells the story of a Pakistani-American boy in Milwaukee coming to terms with his religion and identity. Akhtar drew on his own experiences...

5. www.enotes.com › topics › american-dervishAmerican Dervish Summary - eNotes.com

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   Complete summary of Ayad Akhtar's American Dervish. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of American Dervish.

6. www.latimes.com › entertainment › la-xpm-2012-jan-30‘American Dervish’ review: A Muslim boy grows up in the Midwest

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   Jan 30, 2012 · In press material accompanying the book, Akhtar said he wrote “American Dervish” because he wanted to “open a window on the vibrant and complex world of Islam in the country” but couldn’t...

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   Is American Dervish a good book?

   • American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life. Ayad Akhtar was raised in the Midwest himself, and through Hayat Shah he shows readers vividly the powerful forces at work on young men and women growing up Muslim in America.

   American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar: Summary and reviews - BookBrowse

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   How did Akhtar become an actor?

   • Akhtar discovered acting at Rochester, and transferred to Brown to pursue it. The program was like a conservatory: he was in acting class two hours a day, four days a week, and otherwise translating, directing, producing, and performing. At the end of Akhtar’s senior year, Andre Gregory gave a talk on campus.

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   Who are the Milwaukee Pakistanis in American Dervish?

   • The Milwaukee Pakistanis whom Akhtar depicts in “American Dervish” are hardly model minorities. The plot deals with the lasting effects of the domestic and legal repression of women in the Muslim world, and builds to an ugly eruption of anti-Semitism.

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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 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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   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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8. www.bookbrowse.com › reviews › indexAmerican Dervish by Ayad Akhtar: Summary and Reviews - BookBrowse

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   Jan 9, 2012 · 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.