Sweeping in scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters eluded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed.
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..
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.
In the devastating aftermath of the atomic bomb, Hiroko leaves Japan in search of new beginnings.
Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes white.
Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves.
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award An Orange Prize Finalist Nagasaki, August 9, 1945.
This is an absorbing novel that commands in the reader a powerful emotional and intellectual response -Salman Rushdie. . . .
Kamila Shamsie\'s Burnt Shadows is a story for our time by a writer of immense ambition and strength.
Sweeping in scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters eluded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed
