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Burnt Shadows

Name: Burnt Shadows
Author: Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie

Burnt Shadows is a 2009 novel by Kamila Shamsie. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction.

“How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.”

Kamila Shamsie book Burnt Shadows

Source: Burnt Shadows

“So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.”

Kamila Shamsie book Burnt Shadows

Source: Burnt Shadows

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