Details Regarding Books Home Fire
| 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 |
Kamila Shamsie
Hardcover | Pages: 276 pages Rating: 4.07 | 39188 Users | 4366 Reviews
Explanation In Pursuance Of Books Home Fire
The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequencesIsma 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?
Be Specific About Books As 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) |
Rating Regarding Books Home Fire
Ratings: 4.07 From 39188 Users | 4366 ReviewsWrite-Up Regarding Books Home Fire
Just announced as the winner of Women's Prize for Fiction. So happy the novel finally got the recognition it deserves.4.5* rounded up. Home Fire is the candidate I support to win the Booker Prize. Well, I only read 4 nominees until now so it is not a definite opinion. However, it is highly unlikely that I will make too much of an advancement in my reading of the longlist until the shortlist is published so it will probably remain on top for a while. If you read a few reviews you will realizeDelighted that this has now been recognised as the magnificent book it is: well done Women's Prize panel!Inspired by Sophocles' Antigone, this has a slightly shaky start but then soars into an outstanding tragedy of love, politics, justice and humanity. By drawing on Athenian tragedy, Shamsie makes the point that clashes of civic law vs a deeper, more humane sense of what is right have always been contested, and the tension between family and state always problematic. What she does so
Retellings that bring classic works into the present day are tricky. Our relatively comfortable modernity looks awkward in the classical garb of heightened pathos, all-consuming emotions, and the kind of stakes that begin at life or death and actually get higher from there. Even Jane Austens relatively recent domestic stories tend to founder in a modern setting marriage just isnt the big deal, economically and socially, that it was back then. Shakespeare usually fares better, if only because
A few years ago, one of my best friends eloped to marry a wonderful man. The fact that he was Muslim never even registered with me until she, a former Catholic, tentatively started telling people about this. She got mixed reactions even from those closest to her. Most recently her longest standing friend from London flatly refused to come visit her in SA because of that Muslim whom she has never spoken to or met. It broke her heart. So, at the start of Eamonn and Aneekas relationship I thought I
Deservedly the winner of the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction: What do you say to your father when he makes a speech like that? Do you say, Dad, youre making it OK to stigmatise people for the way they dress? Do you say, what kind of idiot stands in front of a group of teenagers and tells them to conform? Do you say, why didnt you mention that among the things this country will let you achieve if youre Muslim is torture, rendition, detention without trial, airport interrogations, spies in your
I don't give 1-star reviews very often because I feel like I don't read a lot of books I would label as 'bad.' And this book, even, isn't 'bad' in my eyes. But when I think about things I enjoyed regarding this novel, there's pretty much nothing redeemable for me. The characters were flat, the plot was paper thin (even though I know it's a modern retelling of Antigone, I don't feel like that knowledge did anything to elevate the story), and the writing was nothing special and verged on poor at
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
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