American Dervish, Ayad Akhtar
American Dervish, Ayad Akhtar
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American Dervish
A Novel

Author: Ayad Akhtar

Narrator: Ayad Akhtar

Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/09/2012

Synopsis

From Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, a stirring and explosive debut novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world.

Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes.

American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.

About Ayad Akhtar

Ayad Akhtar is a playwright, novelist, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of AMERICAN DERVISH, published in over 20 languages and named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012. His plays include Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination) and The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier, and Evening Standard nominations). As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for The War Within.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tea on September 29, 2013

Crnogorsko izdanje, dobar srpski prevodilac......more

Goodreads review by Jill on October 07, 2012

Ayad Akhtar’s “American Dervish” is one of the most moving books I’ve read in a long time. I won this book in a giveaway on Goodreads, and I’m glad I did, because I might not have picked up this book otherwise, and then would have missed out on a most enjoyable read. This book grabbed me from the sta......more

Goodreads review by Roxane on February 03, 2013

This is a fast read, a coming of age story about a young man who falls in love with his mother's best friend and makes a terrible choice that has terrible consequences. I didn't care for this book. It made all women suffer and all men tyrannical. There was little variation in how any men and women i......more

Goodreads review by Ksab on March 18, 2012

I enjoyed this book and read in in a day!! I found the book very interesting and especially well written in describing the multi faceted joys and challenges growing up in an immigrant commmunity.The author' s character developement as to the dilemnas and issues of personal psychological and cultural......more

Goodreads review by Don on April 30, 2013

(FROM MY BLOG) And Allah said: I am with the ones whose hearts are torn. --Hadith Qudsi The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. --F. Scott Fitzgerald Ayad Akhtar's novel, American Dervish, begi......more

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