- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781405981002
- Length: 320 pages
- Price: £9.99
Broken-Heart Syndrome
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‘Her mother’s heart is a battleground. It is Hiroshima, Mogadishu, Gaza, it is scorched earth and electric air. It is, to her, a heart that has never known rest or ease, only war.’
After a chance encounter with the man who killed her beloved brother during the Somali civil war, decades after beginning her new life in London, Amina collapses on a busy London high street, diagnosed with an episode of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy – a sudden shock or trauma – also known as broken-heart syndrome. Amina’s daughter Yasmin sets out to uncover the story of her uncle’s life, gradually peeling back layers of family secrets that have long lain buried.
After a chance encounter with the man who killed her beloved brother during the Somali civil war, decades after beginning her new life in London, Amina collapses on a busy London high street, diagnosed with an episode of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy – a sudden shock or trauma – also known as broken-heart syndrome. Amina’s daughter Yasmin sets out to uncover the story of her uncle’s life, gradually peeling back layers of family secrets that have long lain buried.
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