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Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-
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Japanese -- Foreign countries -- Fiction.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Fiction.
India -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Fiction.
Pakistan -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Afghanistan -- Fiction.
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Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-
Japanese -- Foreign countries -- Fiction.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Fiction.
India -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Fiction.
Pakistan -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Afghanistan -- Fiction.
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Burnt
shadows
/ Kamila Shamsie.
by
Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-
Doubleday Canada, c2009.
Call #:
FICTION SHA
Subjects
Japanese -- Foreign countries -- Fiction.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Fiction.
India -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Fiction.
Pakistan -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Afghanistan -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780385666954
0385666950
Description:
370 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"Bond Street Books."
Summary:
August 9, 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, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white. In the next, it explodes with the sound of fire and the horror of realization. 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, Hiroko travels to Delhi two years later. There she walks into the lives of Konrad’s half-sister, Elizabeth, her husband, James Burton, and 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, political - are cast over the entwined worlds of the Burtons, Ashrafs, and 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 them together over decades and generations are tested to the extreme, with unforeseeable consequences.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
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