Burnt Shadows
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:20th Sep '18
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Shortlisted for the Orange PrizeBy the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018
--_'A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness' - Financial Times'Powerful, epic yet skilfully controlled … Shamsie's voice is clear and compelling, with a welcome sparseness' - Guardian'Completely authentic, complex, and breath-stopping' - Emma Thompson --_SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZEBY THE ACCLAIMED WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. She is twenty-one and on the verge of marrying Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns whiteIn 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 to find Konrad’s relatives and falls in love with their employee, Sajjad Ashraf. 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 different 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. --_'Shamsie achieves the near impossibility of a truly intimate epic tale … I challenge anyone to put this book down lightly' - Shami Chakrabarti, Observer, Books of the Year'A giant of novel … Beautifully realised' - Independent
A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness * Financial Times *
Powerful, epic yet skilfully controlled … Shamsie's voice is clear and compelling, with a welcome sparseness * Guardian *
A giant of novel … Beautifully realised * Independent *
Shamsie achieves the near impossibility of a truly intimate epic tale … I challenge anyone to put this book down lightly -- Shami Chakrabarti * Observer, Books of the Year *
Completely authentic, complex, and breath-stopping -- Emma Thompson
ISBN: 9781526607829
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 276g
384 pages