AWW21 Homeland Elegies - Ayad Akhtar
Described by Richard Flanagan as the \u201cbest American novel I\u2019ve read in years\u201d, Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar\u2019s Homeland Elegies combines memoir and essay, fact and fiction to deliver a tour de force. How, his narrator asks, can he \u201cexpress the complex, often contradictory alchemy at work in translating experience into art?\u201d. 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.
\nChaired by Ben Brooker