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Plot synopsis. In four sections, Burnt Shadows follows the intersecting histories of two families, beginning in the final days of World War II in Japan, following to India on the brink of partition in 1947, to Pakistan in the early 1980s, and then to New York in the aftermath of 9/11 and Afghanistan in the wake of the ensuing US bombing campaign.
Kamila Shamsie. Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002, as a man is waiting to be sent to Guantanamo Bay, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of love and betrayal. Hiroko Tanaka is twenty-one and in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss.
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Aug 8, 2018 · Burnt Shadows is an immensely ambitious novel by Kamila Shamsie. It’s narrative moves with its characters from war time Japan, to pre-Partition India, to Pakistan during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, to New York after September 11 and the subsequent war in Afghanistan.
Burnt Shadows is a novel by Pakistani-British novelist Kamila Shamsie. Published in 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing, the novel follows two families over the course of the second half of the twentieth century. Set in World War II, the partition of India, Pakistan, New York 9/11, and Afghanistan, Shamsie explores characters living through different ...
Apr 27, 2009 · Burnt Shadows is an absorbing novel that commands, in the reader, a powerful emotional and intellectual response.” ―Salman Rushdie. “Ambitious . . . Shamsie's deft touch . . . delicately builds the momentums of everyday life against the insidiously political situation of the time. . . .
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May 29, 2009 · Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows is an enthralling meta-cultural epic, the panoramic tale of two families tangled together in some of the most devastating conflicts of modern history....
Apr 6, 2009 · Books. Burnt Shadows. Kamila Shamsie. Bloomsbury Publishing, Apr 6, 2009 - Fiction - 384 pages. _______________ 'A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness' - Financial Times....
