Home Fire - Kamila Shamsi

Kamila Shamsie, Kamila Shamsi

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Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mothers death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she cant stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, whos 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 Parvaizs 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 S