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"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."--From the publisher.
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Burnt shadows, Kamila Shamsie
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- Burnt shadows
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Kamila Shamsie
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1408804271
- ISBN13
- 9781408804278
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Women, USA, Military Fiction, Relationships, Wars, Japan, New York, India, Escape, Family relationships, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Unhappy Love, Atomic Bomb, Nagasaki, Pakistani Literature
- First published
- 2009
- Original title
- Burnt Shadows
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- "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."--From the publisher.