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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)

Burnt Shadows

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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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

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Ratings: 3.91 From 5671 Users | 774 Reviews

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The journey from Hiroko Tanaka to an almost Hiroko Konrad and finally, Hiroko Ashraf was intensely poetic and linked to the many absurdities of life. Everything written in the book can be reflected in one simple phrase, "The speed necessary to replace loss." More than a search for identity, Burnt Shadows is a tale about learning the secret about loss. There is no overcoming, just a bitter fading of it and an ever pronounceable taste that can surface anytime.For Raza Konrad Ashraf, the narration

My favourite kind of story - a long-winded many-decades saga through multiple countries and decades and generations. Burnt Shadows begins in 1945 with the story of Hiroko, a Japanese woman who just about survives the bombing of Nagasaki, leaving her burnt and traumatised, and her father and fiancé dead. With no-one left to turn to as a hibakusha, and unwilling to continue working as a translator for the unrepentant Americans who ruined her life, she travels to India to stay with her deceased

I started this book with no hope of ever liking it. Mainly because it had names in Japanese and German that i could not pronounce. It was slow in some places but picked the pace in the end. It is precisely the story of a woman who leaves Japan in hope of a better world trying to out run her past, the story is 55 years of her life from there on.It shows world at its worst and how love, friendship, forgiveness and loyalty can still exist in it. How every decision we make is not independent it

I was impressed with the scope of this novel - from Japan to Pakistan to America, and covering about half a century - it touched upon a broad spectrum of cultures, politics and lives, with the twists and turns in the story largely governed by geographic location. For me it was all about identity, and how a sense of identity can be damaged by the horror of an atomic bomb, or by failing exams, by subterfuge, or by looking different to those around you. But as well as exploring alienation, this

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 twisting yarn of a book that struck me as something written fresh on the heels of 9-11. There were certain elements of the plot that I thought were probably even more impactful for readers who read this book a few years after that horrific event. Beginning in Nagasaki, Japan, just before the second nuclear bomb drops, the story ventures to India, Turkey, Pakistan, and New York as it follows two families, one of German-English and another Japanese-Pakistani extraction. Lives mirror and

From http://lanew-yorkaise.com/ Maybe its because I spent a good part of my college years studying trauma and how people experience and record it; maybe because World War II and its falloutboth figurative and literalis a topic I find myself drawn to again and again (my thesis was based on an oral history project I conducted that recorded the stories of college students-turned-soldiers in the 40s.) Maybe its because the writing is so damn lush, the characters so real. Whatever the reason, Kamila