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Burnt shadows / Kamila Shamsie.
Van Pelt Library PR9540.9.S485 B87 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pakistanis--Fiction.
- Pakistanis.
- Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Fiction.
- Nagasaki-shi (Japan).
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Afghanistan--Fiction.
- Afghanistan.
- Japan--Nagasaki-shi.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- History.
- General fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 370 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Picador edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador, 2009.
- Summary:
- Two years after her prospects are shattered by the bombing of Nagasaki, Hiroko Tanaka travels to Delhi in search of new beginnings and arrives in the home of her ex-fiancé's half-sister, but she finds her circumstances halted by conflicts in the Middle East that prompt her family's eventual relocation to America.
- Contents:
- The yet unknowing world: Nagasaki, 9 August 1945
- Veiled birds: Delhi, 1947
- Part-angel warriors: Pakistan, 1982-3
- The speed necessary to replace loss: New York, Afghanistan, 2001-2.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780312551872
- 0312551878
- 9780747597070
- 0747597073
- OCLC:
- 259266744
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