Home Fire

Home Fire

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Paperback Published on: 22/03/2018
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Synopsis

From the Women's Prize-shortlisted and Man Booker-longlisted author comes an urgent, explosive story of love and a family torn apart.

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.

  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781408886793
  • Number of pages: 288
  • Weight: 211g
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm

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Home Fire
A story of our times
A story that explores the controversial subject of the indoctrination of the ISIS philosophy into a sympathetic yet ultimately misguided populace. Isma Pa... READ MORE
Rob
Home Fire
A Meditation on Jihad and Our World
When the son of a recently appointed Muslim Home Secretary forms a relationship with the daughter and sister of Jihadis, what could possibly go wrong? We... READ MORE
David Kenvyn
Home Fire
Heartbreaking but so fast paced. I devoured this book.
To me a good book should teach you something about the world. In the case of this book I’ve learned about just a few of the daily struggles that Muslims in... READ MORE
Analogue Holly
Home Fire
Engrossing, with a blistering ending.
An important, succinct read tackling both racism and terrorism (and how they interweave) beautifully.
Sam Morcom
Home Fire
Clarity of storytelling.
I loved this book. It has such clarity of storytelling, I understood every thought and nuance and yet I never felt I was being told to think any particular... READ MORE
Kate S