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Consumed : a sister's story
- Title
- Consumed : a sister's story / Arifa Akbar.
- Author
- Akbar, Arifa
- Publication
- London : Sceptre, [2021]
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | RC316.G7 A33 2021 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 242 pages, 16 unnumbered plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Consumed is a story of sisterhood, grief, the redemptive power of art and the strange mythologies that surround tuberculosis. It takes us from Keats's deathbed and the tubercular women of opera to the resurgence of TB in modern Britain today. Arifa travels to Rome to haunt the places Keats and her sister had explored, to her grandparent's house in Pakistan, to her sister's bedside at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead and back to a London of the seventies when her family first arrived, poor, homeless and hungry. Consumed is an eloquent and moving excavation of a family's secrets and a sister's detective story to understand her sibling."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- Biography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Contents
- 1. What is lost -- 1. Departure, 2016 -- 2. Arrival, 1970 -- 3. Hampstead, 1977 -- 4. Sisters then, 1987 -- 5. Rome, 1990 -- 2. What remains -- 6. Art -- 7. Pain -- 8. The beautiful death -- 9. Doctors -- 3. How to be sisters now -- 10. Sacrifice -- 11. Sorrow -- 12. Sisters now.
- ISBN
- 9781529347524
- 1529347521
- 9781529347531 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- on1194869127
- 1194869127
- SCSB-13651678
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library