"Kamila Shamsie opens a vista onto the century we have just lived through-pointing out its terror and its solace. A great, absorbing novel, one that will be with us a long time." - Rick Simonson, Elliot Bay Book Company "One of the finest writers at work anywhere, period. One can only admire the huge advances she has made, and helped us to make, in understanding the new global tensions." - Anita Desai A startling expansion of the author's intentions, imagination and craftsmanship.
" Burnt Shadows is audacious in its ambition, epic in its scope. A tribute to Shamsie's skills." - Chicago Sun-Times 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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