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Longlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction, 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 historyNagasaki, 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."Any reader anticipating a predictable yarn about the radicalisation of Islamist youth may feel cheated. Far more, I suspect, will feel challenged and enlightened, possibly provoked, and undoubtedly enriched." - Maya Jaggi, The GuardianIn 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. "Some novels are so intensely charged with emotion and beauty that th

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Author

Kamila Shamsie

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing UK

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781408800874

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.87 / 5 (2,973 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14