Burnt Shadows
by Kamila Shamsie
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 9992142588
- ISBN 13
- 9789992142585
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Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Karachi, where she grew up. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. While at the University of Massachusetts she wrote In The City By The Sea , published by Granta Books UK in 1998. This first novel was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys Award in the UK, and Shamsie received the Prime Minister's Award for Literature in Pakistan in 1999. Her 2000 novel Salt and Saffron led to Shamsie’s selection as one of Orange's “21 Writers of the 21st Century.” With her third novel, Kartography , Shamsie was again shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys award in the UK. Both Kartography and her next novel, Broken Verses , won the Patras Bokhari Award from the Academy of Letters in Pakistan. Burnt Shadows , Shamsie’s fifth novel, has been longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her books have been translated into a number of languages. Shamsie is the daughter of literary critic and writer Muneeza Shamsie, the niece of celebrated Indian novelist Attia Hosain, and the granddaughter of the memoirist Begum Jahanara Habibullah. A reviewer and columnist, primarily for the Guardian , Shamsie has been a judge for several literary awards including The Orange Award for New Writing and The Guardian First Book Award. She also sits on the advisory board of the Index on Censorship. For years Shamsie spent equal amounts of time in London and Karachi, while also occasionally teaching creative writing at Hamilton College in New York State. She now lives primarily in London. Of the themes in Burnt Shadows , Shamsie says, “There are a number of interconnected ideas in the book that are of interest to me but I suppose if I had to pin it down I'd say I'm exploring what happens at different intersections of personal lives and the force of history — how do people survive living through cataclysmic events? How do relationships survive it? Why is it that some relationships do survive and others don't?”
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- Ria Christie Collections (GB)
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- Title
- Burnt Shadows
- Author
- Kamila Shamsie
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 9992142588
- ISBN 13
- 9789992142585
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Qatar
- This edition first published
- 2012-10
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