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About this guide the following author biography and list of questions about burnt shadows are intended as resources to aid individual readers and book groups who would like to learn more about the author and this book. Kamila shamsie is a pakistani writer with a cosmopolitan background. Burnt shadows by kamila shamsie is in the orange prize for fiction 2009. Ebook burnt shadows as pdf download portable document format. In between, the characters are tossed upon the swells of a turbulent halfcentury, their lives touched by the partition of india, the nuclear arms race, the rise of islamic fundamentalism in south asia, and the. Shamsie, kamila burnt shadows cover imprint first published in great britain 2009 copyright 2009 by kamila shamsie this electronic edition published. Shortlisted for the orange prize in a prison cell in the us, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to guantanamo bay. Her mother is journalist and editor muneeza shamsie. Her most recent novel, burnt shadows, was shortlisted for the. She has been a finalist for the man booker prize, the orange prize twice and the dsc prize for south asian literature, among other honors, and ha. A novel kamila shamsie on free shipping on qualifying offers.
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