Burnt Shadows Paperback by Kamila Shamsie

Product Details

• Publisher: Anchor Canada (2010-03-09)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 384 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780385666961
• Item Weight: 334.53 grams
• Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.0 cm

Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction (now Women's Prize for Fiction)

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

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 an enthralling meta-cultural epic, the panoramic tale of two families tangled together in some of the most devastating conflicts of modern history.

About the Author

KAMILA SHAMSIE is the author of several previous novels, including In the City by the Sea, Salt and Saffron, Kartography, Burnt Shadows, and most recently Best of Friends and Home Fire, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa Novel Award, and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, among other honors. She has been nominated for and won several other awards, including the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prime Minister's Award for Literature in Pakistan, the Patras Bokhari Award, the Walter Scott Prize, and more. She was a 2011 elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2013 was included in the Granta list of Best Young British Writers. She was raised in Karachi and lives in London.