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Home Fire

Kamila Shamsie

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Home Fire won the Women's Prize for Fiction and the London Hellenic Prize and was a book of the year in the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, New Statesman, Evening Standard, and 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.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury
ISBN-13
9781408886755
Topics
Family loyalty and sacrificeRadicalization and extremismIdentity and belongingLove versus politicsImmigration and British Muslim experience

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