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Title	:	Burnt Shadows
Author	:	Kamila Shamsie
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	April 28th 2009 by Bond Street Books (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Pakistan. India. War

Burnt Shadows Hardcover | Pages: 384 pages

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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. As she steps onto her veranda, wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, her world is suddenly and irrevocably altered. In the numbing aftermath of the atomic 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, two years later, Hiroko travels to Delhi. It is there that her life will become intertwined with that of Konrad's half sister, Elizabeth, her husband, James Burton, and their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu. With the partition of India, and the creation of Pakistan, Hiroko will find herself displaced once again, in a world where old wars are replaced by new conflicts. But the shadows of history--personal and political--are cast over the interrelated worlds of the Burtons, the Ashrafs, and the Tanakas 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. The ties that have bound these families together over decades and generations are tested to the extreme, with unforeseeable consequences.

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Original Title:	Burnt Shadows
ISBN:	0385666950 (ISBN13: 9780385666954)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Konrad, Henry, Liz, Abdullah, Kim, Hiroko, Sajjad, Raza, Mr. Burton
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2009), Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2010)

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A novel with great scope ranging over a vast sweep of modern history, written with great warmth and understanding. The characters are well drawn and believable. Characters with flaws, who make mistakes which have consequences, but who are understandable and feel like real people.The novel is broken up into three sections. The first is in the 1940s; in 1945 Hiroko Tanaka has become engaged to Konrad Weiss, a German living, like her in Nagasaki. He is killed by the atomic bomb and she is injured.

The journey from Hiroko Tanaka to an almost Hiroko Konrad and finally, Hiroko Ashraf was intensely poetic and linked to the many absurdities of life. Everything written in the book can be reflected in one simple phrase, "The speed necessary to replace loss." More than a search for identity, Burnt Shadows is a tale about learning the secret about loss. There is no overcoming, just a bitter fading of it and an ever pronounceable taste that can surface anytime.For Raza Konrad Ashraf, the narration

A great read! I highly recommend it. You will feel challenged and enlightened, possibly provoked, and undoubtedly enriched.Beautiful lyrical prose. This book was an Orange Prize finalist.

Just finished this book for book club. I've had so much on recently so it took me longer to get through than is ideal, but even so with all the breaks, this books really impactful. Reading the blurb I wondered if it was setting itself up for a bit of a defeat; how could Shamsie possibly cover Nagasaki, partition of India, 9/11, and the Afghan wars in a single story?!? But she does, and rather masterfully at that. It's one of those books I honestly think should be compulsory reading in schools,

Burnt Shadows (audio book)Burnt Shadows, by Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie, was nominated for the Orange Prize in 2009. Ambitious in its scope, it is a compelling novel that loses its way at the end.Capably narrated in this audio book edition by Jane McDowell who only occasionally confuses the multiple accents she has to portray, Burnt Shadows is the story of Hiroko Tanaka, who survives the Nagasaki bomb blast but loses everything she holds dear. This novel vividly portrays the profound

I am absolutely loving this book! Favorite quotes so far:(On debates regarding the formation of Pakistan) And so it went on and on, and in each group Sajjad found those who made complete sense and in each group also those whose opinions made him want to scatter seeds over the speakers so the pigeons would swoop down and stop their words with a tumult of feathers.(On the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki) ...he knew by her voice that he was going to hear something that she would

Undoubtedly a 5.0. How swiftly the author has swept through the eras; three generations suffering at the hand of fate.. and war. How effortlessly she has woven the myriad of ideas, linking them with each other through real life occurrences is particularly commendable. Not only is this novel thought provoking but it also tells a tale of recent times. How war is bringing nothing but turmoil and destruction. How misunderstandings and lack of communication gives chance for evil to prosper and one to