Kamila Shamsie - Burnt Shadows

Written by Kamila Shamsie. Themes include Subjects.

August 9th, 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 realisation. In the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, Hiroko Tanaka is forced to search for new beginnings ...

Format: Paperback

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