{"product_id":"homeland-elegies-a-barack-obama-favourite-book","title":"Ayad Akhtar: Homeland Elegies [2021] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e NEW YORK TIMES, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eECONOMIST\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I read it in a fever, swept up in the kind of rapture you fall into when your most audacious friend kicks off on a hilarious, outrageous, but deeply sincere rant' Torrey Peters, \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eBooks of the Summer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A beautiful novel about an American son and his immigrant father that has echoes of THE GREAT GATSBY' N\u003ci\u003eew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA deeply personal novel of identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, HOMELAND ELEGIES blends fact and fiction to tell 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging from the heartland towns of America to palatial suites in Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, Akhtar forges a narrative voice that is original as it is exuberantly entertaining. This is a world in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear and the unhealed wounds of 9\/11 continue to wreak havoc. HOMELAND ELEGIES is a novel written in love and anger, which spares no one, least of all the author himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akhtar, Ayad","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44532777320738,"sku":"9781472276896","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/akhtar-ayad-homeland-elegies-a-barack-obama-favourite-book-9781472276896-40681721790754.jpg?v=1677359319","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/homeland-elegies-a-barack-obama-favourite-book","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}