Audiobooks Narrated by Ayad Akhtar

Homeland Elegies: A Novel

"This "profound and provocative" work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish followsan immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging-in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews). "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. 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"

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The Invisible Hand

"A chilling examination of how far we will go to survive and the consequences of the choices we make. 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)."

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