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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.
- Ayad Akhtar
- 2012
Sep 14, 2020 · 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.
- Alexandra Schwartz
Sep 14, 2020 · The narrator's name in the novel is also Ayad Akhtar, and the book reads like memoir. Akhtar says he had to "pilfer" from his own life to write a novel that had the "addictive thrill" of reality...
- Noel King
Akhtar, a Pakistani-American writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, explores love of God and love of others through the prisms of religion, family, and romantic love in this novel. This guide refers to the hardcover first edition.
Sep 14, 2020 · In the opening pages of Ayad Akhtar’s new novel, Homeland Elegies, his narrator shares a memory of a college professor, Mary Moroni, speaking damningly about the United States of America.
Plot Summary. Homeland Elegies begins with an overture—a term normally associated with a musical introduction to a piece of music. The overture is dedicated “To America” and follows narrator Ayad Akhtar as he recalls a particularly memorable college professor.
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Apr 29, 2013 · A play that tackles Islamophobia and questions of Muslim-American identity recently won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play is Disgraced, by first-time playwright Ayad Akhtar.
