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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.
Kamila Shamsie FRSL (Urdu: کاملہ شمسی; born 13 August 1973) [2] is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel Home Fire (2017). [1] Named on Granta magazine's list of 20 best young British writers , Shamsie has been described by The New Indian Express as "a novelist to reckon with and to ...
In 2017 Kamila Shamsie published Home Fire, which transposes some of the moral and political questions in Antigone into the context of Islam, ISIS and modern-day Britain. 2023 saw bestselling author Veronica Roth publish a speculative fiction version of Antigone, Arch-Conspirator , which explores concepts of gender equity, reproductive rights ...
Flu A and flu B are the most common strains of the flu that circulate in humans. The U.S. is currently in the middle of flu season, with a high number of cases reported across the country.
The Hughes Fire that started Wednesday and continued to burn Thursday is the latest in a series of disastrous blazes that have broken out in southern California since Jan. 7.
Burnt Shadows was generally well received by critics.. Maya Jaggi, in her review in The Guardian, praises the book as hugely ambitious, Shamsie's voice as "clear and compelling", and admires the use of both Eastern and Western literary references and poetry in Shamsie's style and narratives. [5]
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Dramatic unclassified video shows the US military bombing a cave complex in the terrorist stronghold of Somalia targeting a senior ISIS "attack planner" and several other militants he recruited in ...