- Muslim families, Fiction, Pakistanis, Fiction, coming of age
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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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Ayad Akhtar
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 357
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Co.
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316183314
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