"Una novela profundamente personal sobre la identidad y la pertenencia a una nación que se desmorona por completo, y que combina hechos reales y ficción para contar una historia épica de pertenencia y desposesión en el mundo que se creó tras el 11 de septiembre. En parte drama familiar, en parte sátira, en parte picaresca, esta es la historia de un padre y un hijo, y el país al que llaman hogar.
Desde las ciudades del corazón de Estados Unidos hasta las suites palaciegas de Davos y los vigías de la guerrilla en las montañas de Afganistán, Akhtar forja una voz narrativa tan original como exuberantemente poderosa. Este es un mundo en el que la deuda ha arruinado innumerables vidas y donde los dioses de las finanzas gobiernan, donde los inmigrantes viven con miedo y las heridas sin curar del 11 de septiembre continúan causando estragos. Elegías a la patria es una novela escrita con amor e ira, que no perdona a nadie, y menos al propio autor.
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Ayad Akhtar es novelista y dramaturgo. Su trabajo ha sido traducido a más de 24 idiomas. Es ganador del Premio Pulitzer de Drama y un Premio de Literatura de la Academia Estadounidense de Artes y Letras. Entre otros honores, Akhtar ha recibido el premio Steinberg Drawrighting, el premio Nestroy, el premio Erwin Piscator, así como becas de la Academia Americana en Roma, MacDowell, el Instituto Sundance y Yaddo. Además, Ayad es miembro de la junta directiva de PEN / America y New York Theatre Workshop. Vive en Nueva York."
"Amir has left his Pakistani heritage behind in an attempt to make partner at his corporate law firm, but his wife Emily doesn't share his negative feelings about Islam-she's encouraged Amir to help with the case of a controversial imam. When they throw a dinner party for Amir's colleague Jory and her husband Isaac, the hard truths revealed lead to the unraveling of their carefully constructed lives. Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring:
Geoffrey Arend as Isaac
Behzad Dabu as Abe
Hari Dhillon as Amir
Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris as Jory
Emily Swallow as Emily
Directed by Brian Kite. Recorded live at UCLA's James Bridges Theater in April 2018."
"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."
"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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