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Description for Burnt Shadows
Paperback.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526607829
SKU
9781526607829
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About Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels: In the City by the Sea (shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Salt and Saffron; Kartography (also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Broken Verses; Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and A God in Every Stone, which was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott ... Read more
Reviews for Burnt Shadows
A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness
Financial Times
Powerful, epic yet skilfully controlled ... Shamsie's voice is clear and compelling, with a welcome sparseness
Guardian
A giant of novel ... Beautifully realised
Independent
Shamsie achieves the near impossibility of a truly intimate epic tale ... I challenge anyone to put this book ... Read more
Financial Times
Powerful, epic yet skilfully controlled ... Shamsie's voice is clear and compelling, with a welcome sparseness
Guardian
A giant of novel ... Beautifully realised
Independent
Shamsie achieves the near impossibility of a truly intimate epic tale ... I challenge anyone to put this book ... Read more