Author: Ayad Akhtar
- Fiction
- Roca Editorial
- ISBN: 9788418417313
- Release Date: 07-13-2021
Synopsis
Una novela profundamente personal sobre la identidad y la pertenencia en una nación que se desmorona por completo, y que combina hechos reales y ficción para contar una historia épica de pertenencia y desposesión en el mundo que se creó tras el 11 de septiembre. En parte drama familiar, en parte sátira, en parte picaresca, esta es la historia de un padre y un hijo, y el país al que llaman hogar. Desde las ciudades del corazón de Estados Unidos hasta las suites palaciegas de Davos y los vigías de la guerrilla en las montañas de Afganistán, Akhtar forja una voz narrativa tan original como exuberantemente poderosa. Este es un mundo en el que la deuda ha arruinado innumerables vidas y donde los dioses de las finanzas gobiernan, donde los inmigrantes viven con miedo y las heridas sin curar del 11 de septiembre continúan causando estragos. Esta es una novela escrita con amor e ira, que no perdona a nadie, y menos al propio autor.
A "profound and provocative" new work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an immigrant father and his son search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews).
A novel of identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, HOMELAND ELEGIES tells 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.
"Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman Rushdie
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. 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. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one—least of all himself—in the process.
