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Greek Tragedy Continues To Reverberate In Novel 'Home Fire'

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Published September 3, 2018 at 11:20 AM CDT

In her 2017 book “Home Fire,” author Kamila Shamsie takes the Greek tragedy “Antigone” and set it in modern times to comment on the war on terror.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young spoke with Shamsie (@kamilashamsie) about the book last year.

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