Burnt Shadows
Author: Kamila Shamsie
ISBN: 978-1408888230
Price: Rs. 420.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guant†š¡namo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders.August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white. in the next, it explodes with the sound of fire and the horror of realization. in the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In search of new beginnings, she travels to Delhi two years later. There she walks into the lives of Konrad's half-sister, Elizabeth, her husband James Burton and their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu. As the years unravel, new homes replace those left behind and old wars are seamlessly usurped by new conflicts. But the shadows of history - personal, political - are cast over the entwined worlds of the Burtons, Ashrafs and the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York and in the novel's astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. the ties that have bound them together over decades and generations are tested to the extreme, with unforeseeable consequences.Sweeping in its scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid and loves rewarded and betrayed.
Browse this title within our Fiction & Bestsellers collection. Edition details: Paperback, English, 384 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-1408888230.
About the Author
Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels: In the City by the Sea; Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Salt and Saffron; Broken Verses; Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and, most recently, A God in Every Stone, which was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Three of her novels have received awards from Pakistan's Academy of Letters. Kamila Shamsie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2013 was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist. She grew up in Karachi and now lives in London.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- General Fiction Readers (All Ages)
- Language & Format
- English • Paperback
- ISBN Reference
- 978-1408888230
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Paperbacks
- Pan-India Delivery
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What is this book about?
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guant†š¡namo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders.August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes...
Who should read this book?
Recommended for readers who enjoy Fiction & Bestsellers and are looking for genuine, well-crafted literature by Kamila Shamsie.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this if you’re drawn to stories that stay with you long after the last page. Burnt Shadows weaves an intimate human story through some of the most defining moments of modern history—from Nagasaki to Partition-era Delhi to post‑9/11 America. You experience love, grief, and survival across cultures and generations, told in lyrical, powerful prose that makes history feel deeply personal and emotionally resonant.
- Published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 384.
Catalog Description
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guant†š¡namo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders.August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white. in the next, it explodes with the sound of fire and the horror of realization. in the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped...
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