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| Title | : | Burnt Shadows |
| Author | : | Kamila Shamsie |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe 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 |
Kamila Shamsie
Hardcover | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 3.91 | 5671 Users | 774 Reviews
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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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Ratings: 3.91 From 5671 Users | 774 ReviewsCriticism Out Of Books Burnt Shadows
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.A wonderful read, terrifying in parts, heart-breaking in others and beautifully written throughout - this story has had a huge impact on me and I know it will linger for a long while.From the beginning of the book when the atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, the effects of this act and of war on the familes involved in the story line shows just how pointless war is.Kamila Shamsie paints some vivid pictures that are difficult to shift and often invoke high emotion.I'd highly recommend this novel
I read so much, and so quickly, that it takes a rare exception of a book to send me searching for post-it notes and a pen to write down quotes from the writing. I found the writing in this book so compelling, that I stopped reading everything else for two whole days and just immersed myself in the story of a woman who finds herself in the midst of several acts of war in the lifetime. From Nagasaki where she is scared mentally and physically, to Delhi where she runs with her new husband from the
'Why? Can't women travel alone in India?'Elizabeth almost laughed. So much for those demure Japanese women of all the stories she'd heard. Here was one who would squeeze the sun in her fist if she ever got the chance; yes, and tilt her head back to swallow its liquid light.Here is how to write a novel with emotional truth: find your characters, and let them make their stories. But Kamila Shamsie, who in Burnt Shadows does this so superbly, has done so much more. When I shared the opening themes
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.
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
She had not thought of destination so much as departure, wheeling through the world with the awful freedom of someone with no one to answer to. She had become, in fact, a figure out of myth. The character who loses everything and is born anew in blood. This book is amazing. No, scratch that. Amazing is probably too weak a word here. Think Astounding. Remarkable. The kind of book you tell your best friend to read so you can discuss it together, going over all the finer points. Ill admit, I
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