Consumed

Akbar, Arifa

£16.99

When Arifa Akbar discovered that her sister had fallen seriously ill, she assumed there would be a brief spell in hospital and then she’d be home. This was not to be. It was not until the day before she died that the family discovered she was suffering from tuberculosis. ‘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.

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Publish Date: 10/06/2021

Additional information

Weight 400 g
Dimensions 220 × 142 × 30 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

242 , 16 unnumbered of plates

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

362.196995 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K