Home Fire

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

Kamila Shamsie (Author)

Home Fire

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

Kamila Shamsie (Author)

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Longlisted of the The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2017 and Longlisted of the The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2017

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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW YORK TIMES
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'The book for our times' - Judges of the Women's Prize

'Powerful … a new home for the old story … what I think you can truly call a contemporary classic' – Ali Smith

'Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' - Guardian

'Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century' - New York Times
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For girls, becoming women was inevitability; for boys, becoming men was ambition.

Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally resuming her dream of studying in America. 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, 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?

Based on Sophocles' classic tragedy Antigone, Home Fire is a story of personal aspiration and family duty, of love in conflict with politics, and the inescapability of bitter history.
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NOW A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017

Product details

Published	13 Feb 2025
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Extent	288
ISBN	9781526689528
Imprint	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie was born and grew up in Karachi, Pa…

Occasionally you know that one of the writers alive at the same time as you has written the book they were born to write … Home Fire has lit a light that'll never go out; Shamsie's version of Antigone reveals the ancient tragedy we're living now

Ali Smith, Guardian, Books of the Year
A modern retelling of Antigone set among a family divided by politics, love, and radicalism. In fewer than 300 pages, it managed to do all the things I want novels to do – tell me something about the world, give me a tiny glimpse into the otherness of others, and, most of all, give me that ache of longing as I turned the last page and realised I would never meet these characters again

Tahmima Anam, Observer, Best Books of the Year
Why do some people become radicalised? It's a question I've explored with experts on-air, but perhaps fiction can provide greater insight. Kamila Shamsie's powerful novel Home Fire, inspired by Sophocles's Antigone, did just that

Martha Kearney, Observer, Best Books of the Year
I very much enjoyed and admired Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, a politically and psychologically acute novel modelled on Sophocles's Antigone – but reworked as the story of two British Muslim sisters and their jihadist brother

Emily Wilson, New Statesman, 'Books of the Year'
I enjoyed Kamila Shamsie's Man Booker-longlisted Home Fire, which does a great job of bringing Sophocles's Antigone into the world of Skype and Isis. Shamsie's writing resonates on the human, political and lyrical plane but its topicality, tight plot and vivid characterisation also suggest a film script in the making

Melissa Benn, New Statesman, 'Books of the Year'
Seeking a template for these dark and strange days many works have modernised Greek dramas … A particularly classy example was Home Fire, in which Kamila Shamsie relocates Antigone by Sophocles to Western and Eastern capitals during the “war on terror”

Mark Lawson, New Statesman, Books of the Year 2017