American Dervish
By
Ayad Akhtar
Read by
Ayad Akhtar
Release:
01/09/2012
Release:
09/04/2012
Release:
01/09/2012
Runtime:
9h 28m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“What a pleasure to encounter a first novel as self-assured and effortlessly told as Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish…An immensely entertaining coming-of-age story…What distinguishes Mr. Akhtar’s novel is its generosity and its willingness to embrace the contradictions of its memorably idiosyncratic characters and the society they inhabit…[A] charming debut.”
New York Times
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.
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.
Release:
2012-01-09
2012-09-04
2012-01-09
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
9h 28m
9h 28m
9h 28m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.7 lb
0.7 lb
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781611136173
9781619693821
9781611135398
Publisher:
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group
Praise