Burnt Shadows

By - Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Picador, New York, 2009

ISBN 10 - 0312551878

ISBN 13 - 9780312551872

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Afghanistan

Shelf No - 10

Call Number - 823.914 SHA

Physical Description - 370 pages ; 21 cm

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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. 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).

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