Home Fire
by Kamila Shamsie · 2017
Literary Fiction · ranked #225 in category
Winner · The Women's Prize for Fiction, 2018
Isma, Aneeka and Parvaiz Pasha are the British children of a jihadist father; when Parvaiz is recruited to ISIS, his sister Aneeka's relationship with the son of the Home Secretary becomes a test of loyalty, love and the limits of the state. Shamsie's Women's Prize-winning novel is a contemporary retelling of Sophocles' Antigone, asking what a sister owes a brother the state has declared an enemy.
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