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Home Fire (2017) is the seventh novel by Kamila Shamsie.It reimagines Sophocles's play Antigone unfolding among British Muslims. The novel follows the Pasha family: twin siblings Aneeka and Parvaiz and their older sister Isma, who has raised them in the years since the death of their mother; their jihadi father, whom the twins never knew, is also dead.
Fire is an ALA Best Books for Young Adults (2010) and a Cybils Awards winner (in the young adult fantasy/scifi category). [2] It was also awarded: Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of 2009 [3] Washington Post Best Kid's Book of The Year [4] Seattle Times Best YA Book of 2009 [5] School Library Journal Best Books of 2009 [6]
[3] The New York Times called it "mesmerizing, important" and Glamour called it "a flat-out marvel of reportage." [4] Author Jonathan Alter, who also wrote the introduction for the 2014 edition, wrote "Katz's familial lens on recent history belongs on a shelf with classics. There is Balzac here, and Theodore Dreiser, with a touch of John ...
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Book One covers May through September 1792 in seven chapters. The main incident in Book One is the tragic death of Francis Poldark. France is at war with Austria and this is of considerable interest to the novel's characters, both because they wonder whether France will eventually be at war with England and also because metal needed for munitions in wars might be good for the price of the tin ...
Fire on the Mountain is a 1988 novel by the American author Terry Bisson. It is an alternate history describing the world as it would have been had John Brown succeeded in his raid on Harper's Ferry and touched off a slave rebellion in 1859, as he intended.
[6]: xi The novel had a major impact on the later writers of the movement, namely on Ernest Hemingway. In 1942, he wrote that he was influenced by its style: The only good war book to come out during the last war was Under Fire by Henri Barbusse. He was the first to show us, the boys who went from school or college to the last war, that you ...
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