Home Fire
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Dublin Literary Award | 2019 | Shortlist |
| Women's Prize for Fiction | 2018 | Winner |
About This Book
A retelling of Sophocles's Antigone set in contemporary London and Syria against the backdrop of the Islamic State. Isma, a British Pakistani woman, travels to America for her doctorate, where she falls for Eamonn, the son of Britain's Home Secretary. Meanwhile, her twin siblings Aneeka and Parvaiz are drawn toward ISIS, with catastrophic consequences for all.
About the Author
Kamila Shamsie was born on 13 August 1973 in Karachi, Pakistan, into a family of intellectuals—her mother is journalist Muneeza Shamsie and her great-aunt was writer Attia Hosain. She attended Karachi Grammar School before studying in the US, earning a BA from Hamilton College and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She moved to London in 2007 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Creative Writing at the Manchester Centre for New Writing. Read more →
