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Review of ‘Home Fire’

In a startlingly relevant update, Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire relocates Sophocles’ Antigone to present-day London and weaves a timely tale of two British Muslim families with differing ideas about bigotry, belief and loyalty.

After years of devoting herself to raising her younger siblings, Isma Pasha is free to return to college and complete her degree…

Interview with Kamila Shamsie

“I am absolutely not someone who thinks that politics is separate from the most intimate details of people’s lives.”

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