AWW21 Homeland Elegies - Ayad Akhtar

Described by Richard Flanagan as the “best American novel I’ve
read in years”, Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland
Elegies combines memoir and essay, fact and fiction to deliver a
tour de force.  How, his narrator asks, can he “express the
complex, often contradictory alchemy at work in translating
experience into art?”.  This powerful, courageous and
extraordinarily timely work is his answer, exploring not just the
state of contemporary America in the Trump era, and the
relationship between East and West, but searing questions of
identity, family and art.


Chaired by Ben Brooker