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by Kamila Shamsie · 2017

Literary Fiction · ranked #226 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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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2017 · 2010s
Author
Kamila Shamsie
Standing
Essential Read

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