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Loading... The Who & The What: A Playby Ayad Akhtar
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This play, by a Pakistani American, seeks to portray Muslims in a more accurate light, rather than how most Americans see them. I'm not sure if it is a success, since it portrayed Muslims pretty much how I see them. It is an interesting work, about a woman who is writing a novel about the prophet; her family is horrified when they read the novel. When it is published, it changes the lives of everyone in her family. Well-written, but most of the characters are not developed as well as I would like. There are some wonderful opportunities that the author sets up that are realized for their full comic potential, or for that matter, their full dramatic potential. Still, it is an interesting work with a compelling story. no reviews | add a review
The Pulitzer prize-winning author of 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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)812.6Literature English (North America) American drama 21st CenturyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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stephenhongsohn, 2015 December 27