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Burnt Shadows is a 2009 novel by Kamila Shamsie. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction [ 1 ] and won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction. [ 2 ]
Kamila Shamsie FRSL (Urdu: کاملہ شمسی; born 13 August 1973) [2] is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel Home Fire (2017). [1] Named on Granta magazine's list of 20 best young British writers , Shamsie has been described by The New Indian Express as "a novelist to reckon with and to ...
Kamila Shamsie: Burnt Shadows: Finalist [52] [53] 2010s. Women's Prize for Fiction winners and finalists, 2010–2019 Year Author Title Result Ref. 2010:
"Best of Friends," Kamila Shamsie's follow-up to "Home Fire," follows two friends from Pakistan to the U.K. — where trouble eventually follows them.
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.
Burnt Shadows (2009) by Kamila Shamsie [24] Dead Air (2002) by Iain Banks. An early chapter is set in London on September 11, 2001. The main protagonist is a left-wing radio "shock jock" attending a wedding when news of the attacks filters through (Tuesday afternoon British time). Eleven (2006) by David Llewellyn.
Emerging authors such as Kamila Shamsie, author of Burnt Shadows (2009), Daniyal Mueenuddin, author of In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (2009), and Sabyn Javeri Jillani, author of Nobody Killed Her (2017) and Hijabistan (2019) have garnered international attention.
Home Fire (2017) is the seventh novel by Kamila Shamsie.It reimagines Sophocles's play Antigone unfolding among British Muslims. The novel follows the Pasha family: twin siblings Aneeka and Parvaiz and their older sister Isma, who has raised them in the years since the death of their mother; their jihadi father, whom the twins never knew, is also dead.