Burning Shadows - Kamila Shamsi

Section : Translated novels

Number of pages: 480 pages

Publishing House: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Publishing House

Where: Nagasaki Time: August 9, 1945 Hiroko Tanaka, twenty-one and about to marry her sweetheart, Conrad Weiss, steps onto her balcony a few minutes before the atomic explosion that will shatter her world and everything in it. Burning Shadows is an epic story of catastrophes escaped or confronted, loyalty given and repaid, and love rewarded or betrayed.