Burnt Shadows
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press
Published:27th Sep '12
£8.99
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Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed.
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.
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
ISBN: 9789992142585
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 388g
480 pages