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American dervish : a novel / by Ayad Akhtar.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 357 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0316183318
  • 9780316183314
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: A young Pakistani boy, whose parents left the fundamentalists behind when they came to America, finds transformation and a path to happiness through a family friend, Mina, who shows him the beauty and power of the Quran.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Akhtar Aya Available 33111006666891
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

A young Pakistani boy, whose parents left the fundamentalists behind when they came to America, finds transformation and a path to happiness through a family friend, Mina, who shows him the beauty and power of the Quran.

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