Bookshelf
Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie ’94
December 1, 2017
Tags Alumni Book
(New York: Riverhead Books, 2017)
Described as a Greek tragedy in the age of ISIS, the author reimagines Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of a British Muslim family living in the shadow of a dead father and his sins. This novel, the author’s seventh, was longlisted for the prestigious 2017 Man Booker Prize. One reviewer observed, “The most impressive part of Home Fire … is Shamsie’s writing, which is beautiful without being florid, and urgent without being rushed.”
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