Kamila Shamsie
Hardcover | Pages: 276 pages Rating: 4.07 | 39188 Users | 4366 Reviews
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| Title | : | Home Fire |
| Author | : | Kamila Shamsie |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 276 pages |
| Published | : | August 15th 2017 by Riverhead Books (first published August 2017) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction |
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The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume 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. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma’s worst fears are confirmed. Then Eamonn enters the sisters’ lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to—or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz’s salvation? Suddenly, two families’ fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?Mention Books In Pursuance Of Home Fire
| Original Title: | Home Fire |
| ISBN: | 0735217688 (ISBN13: 9780735217683) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2017), Costa Book Award Nominee for Novel (2017), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for International Book (2018), Women's Prize for Fiction (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2017) Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2019), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2019) |
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Ratings: 4.07 From 39188 Users | 4366 ReviewsWrite-Up Containing Books Home Fire
Update ... WINNER for the womens prize of fiction for 2018!!!!!SHORT LISTED FOR THE WOMANS PRIZE FOR FICTIONLONG LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWOW!!!!!Personal and political life merges together in the most heartbreaking of ways when a man loves a woman whose family is connected to a Muslim terrorist. The author explores justice, love, and passion in ways that can be compared to older classics - think Romeo and Juliet - yet set in modern time. Beautifully written - poetic - great characterThis is a timely reworking of Antigone about issues of citizenship and state power. It's topical and relevant. But that symbolic framework of the tragedy is also its limitation. My problem is with the romance and ending to fit the tragedy. It felt forced, almost cartoonish. Some characters are paper thin and in a book of multiple perspectives, this inconsistency weakens it. A novel that's good in parts but underwhelming as a whole. I was disappointed.(view spoiler)[Aneeka comes off as a
A remarkably short Novel that delivers on an epic scale. A story of family ties, loyalty and a story of prejudice in the modern world. A thought provoking and intelligent novel that left me wanting to read more of Kamila Shamsie's workThis is another one of those books upon finishing I cant help regretting I hadn't read this as part of a group read just for the discussion factor as there is so much to discuss.The Novel has a very powerful opening wih Isma a Muslin woman struggling to be
This was a 3-star read for most of the book, but the last section was so phenomenal that it elevated the entire novel to something really special. Shamsie establishes the sovereignty of her own story before really diving into the Antigone references at the end, and she plays with a range of themes from Antigone and addresses contemporary issues without diminishing either goal. I leave this book with a much deeper sense of how complicated it is to be a British Muslim than I've gotten from any
When the Booker longlist was announced, this was one of the books that most interested me, because I really enjoyed Shamsie's previous two novels (A God in Every Stone and Burnt Shadows). I was a little nervous when I read that this is a modern retelling of Antigone, because my knowledge of the classics is very limited, but it is a fine book and another one which would make a worthy winner.The book is in five sections each of which focuses on a different character. I found the first slow going -
I keep seeing books that somebody has reviewed or wants to read that I lost with my lost account. This was an easy five star for me. You don't have to know anything about Antigone to appreciate this wonderful book.
It's probably me.This happens to me not infrequently these days. I read a book. I can recognise, intellectually, that it is well written. The concept is an intriguing one - to re-write the Antigone story in an up-to-date setting (and it IS very up-to-date); it has a lot to say about the state of politics in our twittering, tweeting world, in our world of asymmetrical warfare; the characters resonate, the writing never jars, the font is large enough, it sneaks in at well under 300 pages so I
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