Burnt shadows

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• Book review: Burnt Shadows, by Kamila Shamsie

  ALL FICTION IS TRAVEL. KAMILA Shamsie transports you instantly, dramatically, often brilliantly. Burnt Shadows, her latest novel, opens cryptically in a prison cell in America. A detainee is stripping. This is the world post-9/11. A world of u ADVERT ... (read full critics)

  thescotsman published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010

• When worlds collide

  The huge ambition of Kamila Shamsie's fifth novel is announced in the prologue. As an unnamed captive is unshackled and stripped naked in readiness for the anonymity of an orange jumpsuit, he wonders: "How did it come to this?" The vastness of the qu ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  This is an absorbing and provoking story which takes you from Nagasaki at the end of WWII to New York post 9/11.
  It is the first book I have read by Kamilla Shamsie and now will look for more.
  I like the way she describes the madness in the world and how we never learn from the past.

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  Beautful

  This is such a moving book, it travels countries and through eras seamlessly. A MUST READ>

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  Ebony Rose said on Jan 11, 2010 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Others 367 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0747597073
• ISBN-13: 9780747597070
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2009
• Also available as: eBook

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