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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.

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Completely authentic, complex, breath-stopping -- Emma Thompson Achingly moving The Independent, UK Intensely charged with emotion and beauty ... Has such a sad story, ever been told so beautifully? A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness Financial Times, UK A sweeping narrative with a breath-taking climax The Guardian, UK

Burnt Shadows

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    A Paperback / softback by Kamila Shamsie

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      Publisher: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/09/2012
      ISBN13: 9789992142585, 978-9992142585
      ISBN10: 9992142588

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      Completely authentic, complex, breath-stopping -- Emma Thompson Achingly moving The Independent, UK Intensely charged with emotion and beauty ... Has such a sad story, ever been told so beautifully? A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness Financial Times, UK A sweeping narrative with a breath-taking climax The Guardian, UK

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