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A review by enigmadame
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
4.0
What an infuriating ending to a wonderful book. Wonderfully written; wonderful development; wonderful questions explored; but HOLYCOW. UGH. The story follows two interwoven families for two generations with Hiroko, survivor of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki, as the central character. The novel travels from Nagasaki to India to Pakistan to NYC and causes the reader to reflect on their views of pigeonholing people into their (the reader's) view/biases of the population.
SO glad this book was chosen by my book club. I'm far better to have read it and find it cosmical (is that a word?) that I started reading the book during the on-going Syrian exodus and finished a few days after the terrorist bombings in Paris.
SO glad this book was chosen by my book club. I'm far better to have read it and find it cosmical (is that a word?) that I started reading the book during the on-going Syrian exodus and finished a few days after the terrorist bombings in Paris.