Burnt Shadows

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Kamila Shamsie is a writer of immense ambition and strength. 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. Burnt Shadows is an absorbing novel that commands, in the reader, a powerful emotional and intellectual response.” — Salman Rushdie Burnt Shadows is a Postcolonial novel written by Kamila Shamsie in 2009 and discusses the effects of some major events of twentieth century.

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Different motifs like that of war and violence can be found in the novel. The idea of violence and war is shown through the novel. The radicalisation of British Muslims is a major theme not just of news reports, but in drama, too, with Peter Kosminsky’s The State on Channel 4 last week. Is it in danger of becoming the go-to plot for modern thriller writers? The language of the novel is refined and simple. The use of Pakistani idioms can be seen in the novel like, Karachi walllas and ghum khur.

The metallic cries of the cicadas are upstaged by the sound of the air sirens, as a familiar now like the call of insects”.

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