HOME FIRE
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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW YORK TIMES The book for our times - Judges of the Women's Prize Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' - Guardian Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century - New York Times Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London ' or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs. As the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to ' or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz's salvation? Two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined in this searing novel that asks: what sacrifices will we make in the name of love? A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide ' confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master storyteller of our times.
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Book Details
- ISBN: 9781408886793
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- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 2017
- Number of Pages: 264
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- Publisher: BLOOMBERG
- Language: English
- Weight: 0.21 g
