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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 ...
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]
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 ...
Home Fire (novel), a novel by Kamila Shamsie; ... a 1992 book by Don Katz; Home Fires, a 2011 novel by Gene Wolfe; Music. Home Fire, a 1991 album by Ron Kavana;
on bleak house road - Kamila Shamsie remembers the British Council library in Karachi. "After life" The local paper mistakenly reports on the death of the narrator, then ten years later repeats the mistake, but this time is not so quick in acknowledging its mistake. curve tracing - Eve Lacey shows the author round Newnham College, Cambridge Library
Attia Hosain (20 October 1913 – 25 January 1998) [1] was a British-Indian novelist, author, writer, broadcaster, journalist and actor. [2] [3] She was a woman of letters and a diasporic writer.
His first novel, The Collaborator, was published in 2011 and was a finalist for the Guardian First Book award. It takes place in his homeland of Kashmir, torn in conflict between India and Pakistan. Novelist Kamila Shamsie reviewed it for The Guardian and called it "gripping in its narrative drama...Mirza gives us a portrait of Kashmir itself ...