Burnt Shadows

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. She is twenty-one and on the verge of marrying Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns whiteIn 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, Hiroko travels to Delhi to find Konrad's relatives and falls in love with their employee, Sajjad Ashraf. 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 different families 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kamila Shamsie, Shamsie Kamila
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781526607829
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-0782-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, Afghanistan, New York, Pakistan, FICTION / General, Sagas, Nagasaki, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Migration, immigration & emigration, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Migration, immigration and emigration, East Asia, Far East, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples