Burnt Shadows

Author: Kamila Shamsie

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 27 September 2012 by Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press in Qatar.

Paperback | 480 pages
172 x 198 x 31 | 388g

Text in Arabic. 29 August 1945: Nagasaki: Hiroko Tanaka, twenty-one and in love with Konrad Weiss, the man she is about to marry, steps out onto her veranda, minutes before a nuclear explosion shatters her world and everything in it. Al-Thelal Al-Mohtariqa is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed.