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).
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 04/27/2009
ISBN: 9780312551872
Pages: 370
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.20d
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Nominee
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/26/2009 pg. 94
Library Journal 02/15/2009 pg. 97
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2009
Booklist 04/15/2009 pg. 21
