Home Fire

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

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_______________<br><br>WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION <br>WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE<br><br>A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW YORK TIMES<br>_______________<br><br>?The book for our times' - Judges of the Women's Prize<br><br>'Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' - Guardian<br><br>'Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century' - New York Times<br>_______________<br><br>For girls, becoming women was inevitability; for boys, becoming men was ambition<br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br><br>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.<br>_______________<br><br>NOW A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE 2018<br>LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781526679987

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 128 x 21 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury UK