Literary Fiction · TenseAfter Isma is stopped at Heathrow, she reaches Amherst, where she meets Eamonn Lone, the Home Secretary's son
Home Fire
A modern retelling of Antigone about a family of British siblings and the Home Secretary's son
Isma Pasha, the eldest sibling, raised her younger twin siblings Aneeka and Parvaiz after their mother's death. The story begins with Isma detained by security at Heathrow Airport, so she misses her flight to Boston. She eventually reaches Amherst, Massachusetts, for graduate study and meets Eamonn Lone, the son of British Home Secretary Karamat Lone. The settings also include Istanbul, Raqqa and Karachi. The novel is a modern reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone.
More about this book
Who
Isma, Aneeka and Parvaiz Pasha, and Eamonn Lone.
World
London, Amherst, Istanbul, Raqqa and Karachi.
What makes it different
It is a modern version of Sophocles' Antigone, with an epigraph from Seamus Heaney's translation.
Feel
Fast and tense. It was longlisted for the 2017 Booker Prize.
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Further reading
- Home FireWikipedia