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By Kamila Shamsie

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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

Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams across Urakami Valley, and then the world goes white.

In the devastating aftermath of the atomic b...

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Fiction Literature Fiction Subjects World Fiction Family & Friendship - Fiction Indian & South Asian Fiction English, Scottish, & Welsh Fiction Family Sagas - Fiction Pakistani Fiction English Fiction - 21st Century 2009 Orange Prize Shortlist 2010 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Fiction Awards British Literary Awards Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction)Previous Shortlists - Women's Prize for Fiction Other Awards Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Previous Winners - Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - 2000s