house fire

Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Winner of the London Panhellenic Prize, Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, New Statesman, Evening Stand, and New York Times Book of the Year. _______________ "A book for our time" - Women's Prize judges. "Stylish and provocative... a powerful exploration of the conflict between community, family, and faith in the modern world" - The Guardian. "Leads to one of the most unforgettable closing scenes I've read in a novel this century" - The New York Times. _______________ Esma is free. After years spent raising her twin brothers in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a long-cherished dream. But she can't stop worrying about Anika, her beautiful, headstrong sister in London—or their brother, Parvez, who has disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadi father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. He is handsome and privileged, and inhabits a London worlds apart from their own. As the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has a birthright to live up to—or defy. Will he be a chance for love? Parvez's means of salvation? The fates of two families become inextricably and devastatingly intertwined in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love? A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent and ferocious tale of fractured loyalties when love and politics collide—confirming Kamila Shamsie as the master storyteller of our time. _______________ Now on BBC Radio 4. The Bedtime Book. Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Fiction Prize. Shortlisted for the 2018 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.