Ayad Akhtar
All Books By Ayad Akhtar
American Dervish
- By: Ayad Akhtar
- Narrator: Ayad Akhtar
- Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 09, 2012
- Language: English
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3.71(7332 ratings)
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.
... Read moreDisgraced
- By: Ayad Akhtar
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 1 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 10, 2013
- Language: English
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3.92(2248 ratings)
From the Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama and author of Homeland Elegies, a “sparkling and combustible” play about identity in America after September 11 (Bloomberg).
“In dialogue that bristles with wit and intelligence, Akhtar puts contemporary attitudes toward religion under a microscope, revealing how tenuous self-image can be for people born into one way of being who have embraced another…. Everyone has been told that politics and religion are two subjects that should be off-limits at social gatherings. But watching these characters rip into these forbidden topics, there’s no arguing that they make for ear-tickling good theater” (New York Times).“Add a liberal flow of alcohol and a couple of major secrets suddenly revealed, and you’ve got yourself one dangerous dinner party” (Associated Press).
Homeland Elegies
- By: Ayad Akhtar
- Narrator: Ayad Akhtar
- Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: September 15, 2020
- Language: English
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4.16(16458 ratings)
From 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.
One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2020
Finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
A Best Book of 2020 * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly
“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.
Junk
- By: Ayad Akhtar
- Narrator: Michael Crouch
- Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 07, 2017
- Language: English
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3.79(139 ratings)
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced, a fast-paced play that exposes the financial deal making behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s.
Set in 1985, Junk tells the story of Robert Merkin, resident genius of the upstart investment firm Sacker Lowell. Hailed as “America’s Alchemist,” his proclamation that “debt is an asset” has propelled him to a dizzying level of success. By orchestrating the takeover of a massive steel manufacturer, Merkin intends to do the “deal of the decade,” the one that will rewrite all the rules. Working on his broadest canvas to date, Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar chronicles the lives of men and women engaged in financial civil war: insatiable investors, threatened workers, killer lawyers, skeptical journalists, and ambitious federal prosecutors. Although it’s set 40 years in the past, this is a play about the world we live in right now; a world in which money became the only thing of real value.
... Read moreThe Invisible Hand
- By: Ayad Akhtar
- Narrator: Ayad Akhtar
- Length: 1 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 25, 2015
- Language: English
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3.96(95 ratings)
In remote Pakistan, Nick Bright awaits his fate. A successful financial trader, Nick is kidnapped by an Islamic militant group, but with no one negotiating his release, he agrees to an unusual plan. He will earn his own ransom by helping his captors manipulate and master the world commodities and currency markets.
“[A] tense, provocative thriller about the unholy nexus of international terrorism and big bucks….”-Seattle Times
“Ahktar again turns hypersensitive subjects into thought-provoking and thoughtful drama”-Newsday
“The prime theme is pulsing and alive: when human lives become just one more commodity to be traded, blood eventually flows in the streets”-Financial Times
“Whip-smart and twisty”-Time Out New York
“The Invisible Hand offers genuine insight into the future of the West” (Village Voice).