Pre-Owned Burnt Shadows (Paperback) 1408804271 9781408804278

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 bomb Hiroko leaves Japan in search of new beginnings. From Delhi amid India s cry for independence from British colonial rule to New York City in the immediate wake of 9/11 to the novel s astonishing climax in Afghanistan a violent history casts its shadow the entire world over. Sweeping in its scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place this is a tale of love and war of three generations and three world-changing historic events. 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).