Home Fire -

Kamila Shamsie

Riverhead Books

2017

276 páginas

9h 12m

ISBN-13: 9781408886793

Practical-minded Isma has spent the years since her mother’s death watching out for her twin brother and sister in their North London home. When an invitation to grad school in America comes through unexpectedly, it brings the irresistible promise of freedom too long deferred. But even an ocean away, Isma can’t stop worrying about her beautiful, headstrong, politically inclined sister, Aneeka, and Parvaiz, their brother, who seems to be adrift—until suddenly he is half a globe away in Raqqa, trying to prove himself to the dark legacy of the father he never knew, with no road back.

Then Eamonn Lone 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 instrument of Parvaiz’s salvation? Suddenly, two families’ fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined.

Home Fire is a nuanced, searing, and exceedingly timely novel about love and loyalty, ideology and identity, what we choose to sacrifice for and why. With uncanny insight, Kamila Shamsie reflects our world back at us, dramatizing the complicated humanity behind the headlines

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Bom demais!!

Li esse livro pra fazer uma prova de prosa na faculdade e, mesmo sendo bem diferente do que eu costumo ler, me surpreendeu muito. A história é bastante complexa e cheia de camadas, eu simplesmente devorei. Uma das coisas que mais gostei foi que cada personagem narra um pedacinho do livro, sinto que isso faz a gente se conectar com todos de alguma forma, entender melhor os sentimentos e os problemas de cada um. Acabei me envolvendo muito mais do que imaginei.