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Burnt Shadows
By: Kamila Shamsie
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9 August, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one and in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white; in the next, it explodes. In 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. In search of new beginnings, she travels to Delhi to find Konrad's relatives, and falls in love with their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu.
As the years unravel, new homes replace those left behind and old wars are seamlessly usurped by new conflicts. But the shadows of history - personal and political - are cast over the entwined worlds of two families 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.
ISBN:9780747598138