![]() ![]() delicately builds the momentums of everyday life against the insidiously political situation of the time. ![]() Burnt Shadows is an absorbing novel that commands, in the reader, a powerful emotional and intellectual response.” - Salman Rushdie She understands a great deal about the ways in which the world's many tragedies and histories shape one another, and about how human beings can try to avoid being crushed by their fate and can discover their humanity, even in the fiercest combat zones of the age. “Kamila Shamsie is a writer of immense ambition and strength. In Burnt Shadows, Kamila Samsie casts her imagination remarkably far and wide, through time and across continents.” - Mohsin Hamid ![]() “The most ambitious novel yet by this talented writer. “Completely authentic, complex, and breath-stopping.” - Emma Thompson Kamila Shamsie's subject is brilliantly timely in our era or 'globalization'-at the same time a riveting family saga in which the very concept 'family' is ambitiously and imaginatively examined.” - Joyce Carol Oates “Burnt Shadows is one of the most remarkable novels I have read in recent years - a tour de force of vision, sympathy, language. ![]()
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