Description |
264 pages ; 23 cm |
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Summary |
From the Orange and Baileys Prize-shortlisted 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 |
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Subject |
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Muslim families -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Political fiction.
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Fiction.
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ISBN |
1408886774 (hardback) |
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1408886782 (paperback) |
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9781408886779 (hardback) |
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9781408886786 (paperback) |
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