Burnt Shadows

Kamila Shamsie

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.How did it come to this?he wonders...August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading u...