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Burnt Shadows was generally well received by critics.. Maya Jaggi, in her review in The Guardian, praises the book as hugely ambitious, Shamsie's voice as "clear and compelling", and admires the use of both Eastern and Western literary references and poetry in Shamsie's style and narratives. [5]
It is also known in English with various titles, including I come and Stand at Every Door, I Unseen, and Hiroshima Girl. The bombing of Nagasaki plays a significant role in the novel Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie. The children's book Shin's Tricycle tells the story of 3-year-old Shinichi Tetsutani, who was killed in the bombing of Hiroshima.
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Shamsie's fifth novel, Burnt Shadows (2009), was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction [10] and won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction. [12] A God in Every Stone (2014) was shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize [13] and for the Baileys Women's Prize For Fiction. [14]
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Faye Marder Kellerman [1] (born July 31, 1952 [2]) is an American writer of mystery novels, in particular the "Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus" series, as well as three nonseries books, The Quality of Mercy, Moon Music, and Straight into Darkness.
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