Book description
Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows is a story for our time by "a writer of immense ambition and strength. . . . This is an absorbing novel that commands in the reader a powerful emotional and intellectual response" -Salman Rushdie.
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
An Orange Prize Finalist
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Why read it?
1 author picked Burnt Shadows as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book about a survivor of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb brings the suffering of victims to life, while painting a picture of the strength of the human spirit to overcome unimaginable trauma. It also explores the politics and social stresses at the time of Partition in India, another world-changing event. It is beautiful, heart-breaking and thought-provoking.
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