Kamila Shamsie: Burnt Shadows [2018] paperback SHBFI University of Sussex

University of Sussex

The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room

events take an unexpected and dangerous direction

And someone is leaving them taunting messages

Kamila Shamsie: Burnt Shadows [2018] paperback SHBFI University of SussexShortlisted for the Orange Prize By the acclaimed winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. She is twenty one and on the verge of marrying Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns whiteIn the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird shaped burns on