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Burnt Shadows

Burnt Shadows

Shamsie, Kamila

Paperback

Historical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $26.99

ISBN10: 0312551878
ISBN13: 9780312551872
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Apr 27 2009
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.79
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Awards: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows is a story for our time by a writer of immense ambition and strength. . . . This is an absorbing novel that commands in the reader a powerful emotional and intellectual response -Salman Rushdie.

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
An Orange Prize Finalist

Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes white.

In the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroko leaves Japan in search of new beginnings. From Delhi, amid India's cry for independence from British colonial rule, to New York City in the immediate wake of 9/11, to the novel's astonishing climax in Afghanistan, a violent history casts its shadow the entire world over. Sweeping in its scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place, this is a tale of love and war, of three generations, and three world-changing historic events.

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