Consumed : in search of my sister
Akbar, Arifa2022
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Total copies: 2
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.
Main title:
Consumed : in search of my sister / Arifa Akbar.
Author:
Akbar, Arifa, author
Imprint:
London : Sceptre, 2022.
Collation:
242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2021.
ISBN:
9781529347555 (pbk)
Dewey class:
362.196995362.1969
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
389003