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Hayat Shah was captivated by Mina long before he met her: his mother's beautiful, brilliant, and soulfully devout friend is a family legend. When he learns that Mina is leaving Pakistan to live with the Shahs in America, Hayat is thrilled. §Hayat's father is less enthusiastic. He left the fundamentalist world behind with reason. What no one expects is that when Mina shows Hayat the beauty and power of the Quran, it will utterly transform the boy. §Mina's real magic may be that the Shah household, always contentious and sad, becomes a happy one. But when Mina finds her own path to happiness, the ember of jealousy in Hayat's heart is enflamed by the community's anti-Semitism-and he acts with catastrophic consequences for those he loves most.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: American Dervish
• Subtitle: A Novel
• Author: Ayad Akhtar
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 480
• EAN: 9780316204767
• ISBN: 0316204765
• ID: 05247420
• Publisher: LITTLE BROWN & CO
• Weight: 703 g
• Dimensions: 239 × 152 × 46 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. January 2012

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