Ayad Akhtar
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
xii, 98 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
New York. Today. Corporate lawyer Amir Kapoor is happy, in love, and about to land the biggest career promotion of his life. But beneath the veneer, success has come at a price. When Amir and his artist wife, Emily, host an intimate dinner party at their Upper East Side apartment, what starts out as a friendly conversation soon escalates into something far more damaging.
4) Disgraced
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
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
...6) Junk: a play
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Description
xvi, 157 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fast-paced economic thriller that exposes the financial deal making behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s"--Publisher's web site.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Description
xviii, 124 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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"--Amazon.com.
8) Junk
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
123 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1985. Robert Merkin, the resident genius of the upstart investment firm Sacker-Lowell, has just landed on the cover of Time magazine. Hailed as 'America's Alchemist,' his proclamation that 'debt is an asset' has propelled him to dizzying heights. Zealously promoting his belief in the near-sacred infallibility of markets, he is trying to reshape the world. What Merkin sets in motion is nothing less than a financial civil war, pitting magnates...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
53 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Brilliant Pakistani-American writer Zarina is focused on finishing her novel about women and Islam. The only distraction is her father's insistence at setting her up on a date with Eli, a young convert who pleases both her father's conservative values and Zarina's modern, complicated Muslim identity. Everything seems to be going the way everyone wants, until Zarina finishes her book -- a fictional accounting of the story in the Quran of the revelation...
11) The war within
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Pakistani engineering student in Paris is imprisoned and interrogated by Western intelligence service for suspected terrorist activities. What unfolds is a profound human and political drama as we tensely observe the state of mind of a suicide bomber.
12) God said this
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Description
xii, 98 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Yale Drama Series-winning play about self-defense, desire, and healing in the aftermath of a college rape
Seven college students gather for a DIY self-defense workshop after a sorority sister is raped. They practice using their bodies as weapons. They wrestle with their desires. They learn the limits of self-defense.
This new play by writer, director, actor, and community builder Liliana Padilla explores the intersection...
Seven college students gather for a DIY self-defense workshop after a sorority sister is raped. They practice using their bodies as weapons. They wrestle with their desires. They learn the limits of self-defense.
This new play by writer, director, actor, and community builder Liliana Padilla explores the intersection...