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Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century." -The New York TimesWINNER OF THE 2018 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequencesIsma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings...

Il 9 agosto 1945 a Nagasaki, Hiroko Tanaka esce sulla veranda di casa: leggera dei suoi ventun anni, innamorata del suo Konrad, i pensieri alati come le tre gru che le attraversano la schiena, ricamate sul suo kimono. All'improvviso, il cielo esplode di un bianco abbagliante e le strade si anneriscono di migliaia di ombre... E nel giro di un istante a Hiroko non rimane più nulla, a parte tre ustioni a forma di gru sulla schiena, ricordo indele...

Samina Akram, famosa attivista politica pakistana, scompare nel nulla. Due anni prima il suo amante, il più famoso poeta del Paese e anch'egli dissidente, era morto a seguito delle percosse subite da una non meglio identificata agenzia governativa. Quattordici anni dopo, mentre il Paese vive una nuova stagione democratica, Aasmani, la figlia trentenne di Samina, riceve un messaggio redatto nel codice segreto usato da sua madre e dal Poeta per ...

Isma, Aneeka and Parvaiz know what it is to view the state as your antagonist. The father who abandoned them in childhood was a jihadi, and the siblings have grown up in London fearing the watchful eyes of their government. While Isma finds solace in academia, Parvaiz embarks on a far darker path. When Isma strikes up a friendship with Eamonn, the attractive son of the UK's most powerful Muslim politician, she must decide how much of her famil...

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A new novel from the author of "Burnt Shadows", which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, who has been named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Beginning in 1914, it ranges across the globe, into the heart of empires fallen and conquered, reminding us that we all have our place in the chaos of history. Now in paperback.

Quinta novela de la escritora pakistaní Kamila Shamsie, Sombras quemadas ha marcado un punto de inflexión en el conjunto de su obra. Tanto críticos como escritores han elogiado su prosa viva y su formidable visión de los acontecimientos históricos. A lo largo de seis décadas desde Japón en los últimos días de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la India al borde de la partición, hasta Pakistán en la década de los ochenta, Nueva York tras el 11-S y Afg...

Hasan is eleven years old. One summer morning, Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death. Set in a land ruled by an oppresive military regime, this novel recreates the confusing world of a young boy on the edge of adulthood, and illustrates the transformative power of the imagination.

In the summer of 1914 a young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer, joins an archaeological dig in Turkey, fulfilling a long-held dream. Working alongside Germans and Turks, she falls in love with archaeologist Tahsin Bey and joins him in his quest to find an ancient silver circlet. But the outbreak of war in Europe brings her idyllic summer to a sudden end, and her new friends become her nation's enemies.Thousands of miles away, twenty-year-old ...

29 August 1945: Nagasaki: Hiroko Tanaka, twenty-one and in love with Konrad Weiss, the man she is about to marry, steps out onto her veranda, minutes before a nuclear explosion shatters her world and everything in it. Al-Thelal Al-Mohtariqa is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed.

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The paperback edition of the novel shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009. Sweeping in scope and evocative of time and place, this crosses generations, cultures and continents, in a style similar to Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner". In 1945, Hiroko loses everything in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Years later, she's travelled to Delhi, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11.

In recent years, countless politicians and commentators have been addressing the Quran in an attempt to understand the rise of Muslim extremist ideology. They have missed the point: the most significant factor in this phenomenon is to be found within the particular circumstances of individual nation-states. Islam as a static global and temporal entity is a myth. The reality reflects a wide variety of experience founded on the co-mingling of re...

Sweeping in scope and mesmerizing in its evocation of time and place, "Burnt Shadows" is an epic narrative of disasters eluded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed.

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Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents were even once engaged to each others' partners until they rematched in what they call "the fiancee swap." But as adolescence distances the friends, Karim takes refuge in maps while Raheen searches for the secret behind her parents' exchange. What she uncovers reveals not just a family's but a country's turbulent history-and a grown-up Raheen an...