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Burnt shadows
Format:
Book
Title:
Burnt shadows
ISBN:
9780312551872

9780747597070
Edition:
1st Picador ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Picador, 2009.
Physical Description:
370 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
The yet unknowing world: Nagasaki, 9 August 1945 -- Veiled birds: Delhi, 1947 -- Part-angel warriors: Pakistan, 1982-3 -- The speed necessary to replace loss: New York, Afghanistan, 2001-2.
Summary:
Two years after her prospects are shattered by the bombing of Nagasaki, Hiroko Tanaka travels to Delhi in search of new beginnings and arrives in the home of her ex-fiancé's half-sister, but she finds her circumstances halted by conflicts in the Middle East that prompt her family's eventual relocation to America.
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