The Resource Home fire : a novel, Kamila Shamsie
Home fire : a novel, Kamila Shamsie
- Summary
- "From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences. Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, an invitation from a mentor in America has allowed her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half the globe away, Isma's worst fears are confirmed. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to--or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz's salvation? Suddenly, two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- pages
- Isbn
- 9780735217683
- Label
- Home fire : a novel
- Title
- Home fire : a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Kamila Shamsie
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences. Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, an invitation from a mentor in America has allowed her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half the globe away, Isma's worst fears are confirmed. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to--or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz's salvation? Suddenly, two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?"--
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- Title
- Home fire
- Summary
- Given a chance to resume a deferred dream years after raising her troubled siblings, Isma worries about the influence of a powerful politician's son who drives the family to choose between love and loyalty, with devastating consequences
- Award
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- New York Times Notable Book, 2017
- Library Journal Best Books, 2017.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10572987
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9540.9.S485
- LC item number
- H66 2017
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 1070
- Literary form
- fiction
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- Target audience
- adult
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- Kamila Shamsie
- Label
- Home fire : a novel, Kamila Shamsie
- Related Authorities
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- Secrets
- Fiction.
- Brothers and sisters
- Domestic fiction
- Great Britain
- Families
- Literary fiction
- Women graduate students
- British in the United States
- Politicians
- Syria
- Muslims
- Political fiction
- 21st century
- Family relationships
- Massachusetts
- London, England
- Loyalty
- Love stories
- Lovers
- Men/women relations
- Related Subjects
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- Literary fiction
- Love stories
- Politicians
- Men/women relations
- Family relationships
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- Loyalty
- Families -- Fiction.
- Syria
- Political fiction
- British in the United States
- Massachusetts
- Secrets
- Women graduate students
- Political fiction
- London, England
- Domestic fiction
- Families
- Lovers
- Muslims
- Brothers and sisters
- Control code
- ocn967524869
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- Extent
- pages
- Isbn
- 9780735217683
- Isbn Type
- (hc)
- Lccn
- 2017003238
Subject
- Domestic fiction
- Families -- Fiction.
- Love stories
- Political fiction
- British in the United States
- Brothers and sisters
- Families
- Family relationships
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- Literary fiction
- London, England
- Lovers
- Loyalty
- Massachusetts
- Men/women relations
- Muslims
- Political fiction
- Politicians
- Secrets
- Syria
- Women graduate students
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Awards of Home fire : a novel, Kamila Shamsie- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2017
- Award
- Library Journal Best Books, 2017.
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