Home Fire (Kamila Shamsie)

Home Fire

Kamila Shamsie

This narration is a retelling of the Greek myth of Antigones. If you have read the myth, you would recognise several elements present in this book.

Isma is the eldest sibling in a English family of islamic beliefs. She lost her father when she was very young as he was being conducted to Guantamano as a prisoner.  Her siblings, the twins Aneeka and Parvaiz didn´t even meet him. They only way they knew this father was a silence surrounded by the questions of policemen and agents, trying to find out if the members of the family were connected to extremists in a way or another.

Now Isma is free and is in America to continue her studies. She meet Eamonn, the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, and apparently, she feels contradictory emotions towards him.

However, Eamonn travels back to England and meets Aneeka. They soon start a loving afair.

The problem is Parvaiz. He has been having connections with jihadist fighters and apparently has taken the struggle of the Muslims in the world in his own hands.

This narration shows a family dealing with their positions in the world as Muslims and British, how people perceive them and the preconceptions they have of them.

A very current novel, it is a good entrance to the debate going on in the world at the moment while enjoying beautiful writing, powerful characters and an evolving plot that would engulf the reader up to the end.

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