Home Fire: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 22 March 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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 Standard, and New York Times.

"The book for our times - Judges of the Women's Prize"

Elegant and evocative, this powerful exploration of the clash between society, family, and faith in the modern world will leave you breathless.

"Guardian"

Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century.

"New York Times"

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 has 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 world 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?

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.

"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.

Weight: 210g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781408886793