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The Who & The What

Ayad Akhtar

The author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced explores the conflict that erupts within a Muslim family in Atlanta when an independent-minded daughter writes a provocative novel that offends her more conservative father and sister.

Zarina has a bone to pick with the place of women in her Muslim faith, and she's been writing a book about the Prophet Muhammad that aims to set the record straight. When her traditional father and sister discover the manuscript, it threatens to tear her family apart. With humor and ferocity, Akhtar's incisive new drama about love, art, and religion examines the chasm between our traditions and our contemporary lives.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : OCT 7, 2014
  • Imprint : Back Bay Books
  • Page Extent : 128
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780316324496
  • Price : INR 1,140
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Ayad Akhtar

Ayad Akhtar is a screenwriter playwright actor and novelist. He is the author of a novel American Dervish and was nominated for a 2006 Independent Spirit Award for best screenplay for the film The War Within. His plays include Disgraced produced at New York's Lincoln Center Theater in 2012 and on Broadway in 2014 and recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and The Who & The What produced at Lincoln Center Theater in 2014. He lives in New York City.

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