Kamila Shamsie is a Pakistani writer known for novels that explore themes of identity and displacement. The document provides a detailed summary of her biography and literary career, as well as an in-depth analysis of her 2009 novel Burnt Shadows. The novel follows the life of Hiroko Tanaka, a Japanese woman, from 1945 to 2002 as she experiences the aftermath of war and atomic attacks in Japan, Partition in India, and life as an immigrant in the US post-9/11. Through Hiroko's journey, the novel examines themes of trauma, love, cultural and religious influences, and the pain of migration.

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2. Biography Of Kamila Shamsie
 Full Name
 Generation
 Birth(1973)
 Family Background (Mother, Father, Aunt, grandmother)
 Education (BA&MFA)
 Migration (2007)
 Nationality
 Inspiration (Agha Shahid Ali, Charles Dickens)
 Works
 Awards

3. Famous Works
 In the City by the sea(1998)
 Salt and Saffron(2000)
 Kartography (2002)
 Broken Verses(2005)
 Offence: The Muslim Case(2009)
 Burnt Shadows (2009)
 A God in every stone(2014)
 Home Fire(2017)

4. Some Voices Of Kamila's Heart Via Her Pen
Before her 3rd novel she said:
"I was ready to write but not sure what......
I met a theatre director
My thought at that point was, lets do something to fill
the time"

5. Hiroko Tanaka
Japanese Girl, Teacher, Translator
Sufferer of Nagasaki Attack
Cranes tattoo on her back
Father declared Traitor, Mother Died
Fall in PTSD Disease
Konard Vas
A German from Berlne,
 In Japan to capture property
 Also to write a Book titled Kosmo Politician
 Hired Hiroko as translator
Fall in love with Hiroko, proposed Hiroko
Died in a Blast

6. Yoshi
 A friend of Konard
Introduced Hiroko to Konard
Father Assano
 A priest
 Konard went to him to take books

7. Ilse
Konard’s step sister in Delhi
 Change her name to Elizabeth Burten
Hiroko went to meet her after Konard’s death in Blast
James Burten (Jacob)
 English Man, Husband of Ilse
Jacob is unhappy to see Hiroko

8. Sajjad Ali Ashraf
A Turk Muslim in Delhi, Servant of Burten Family
Hiroko learn Urdu from him & both all in Love
Both Married in Istambol
Returned after Partition of India
Run a soap factory
A man Killed him due to suspicion of his being an American
RAZA
Sajjad & Hiroko sixteen year old son
Anxiety attacks during law test
Arrested by New York Police as under suspicion
Prologue: chained man

9. Harry Burten
James & Ilse’s Son Visit Sajjad & Hiroko
English man & creates problem for Raza
Due to him Mujahdeen doubt on Raza
Some one shot Harry in Afghanistan
Abdullah
 Raza’s friend in fish market
Take Raza to Mujahdeen’s Military Training
To learn how to fight the Soviets
Latter went to New York and work as a cab driver

10. Mujahadeen
Kim
 Harry’s daughter in New York
Doubt Abdullah as terrorist
Calls new York Police & Raza arrested
Calls authorities to free Raza but failed.

11. Story Analysis
KEY POINTS OF STORY
 Four Times Four Locations
 Chronological order
 Nagasaki 1945
 Delhi 1947
 Pakistan 1982-83
 New York And Afghanistan 2001-2

12. Epigraph
……a time
to recollect
Every shadow, everything the earth was losing.
(Agha Shahid Ali)
Prologue
A man shackled to chains wondering.
“How did it come the this.”

13. The Yet Unknowing World Nagasaki, 9 August 1945
 Lines from Shakespeare Hamlet
(Fifth Act)
“Let me speak to the yet unknowing world“
"No one in Nagasaki could cast such a long
shadow“
 PTSD(Post traumatic stress disorder)

14. Veiled Birds
 Ilse, James, Sajjad in Delhi
 Hiroko's position in India
 Indo-Pak partition
 Nationless and religionless Hiroko
"I grew up believing in continuity. I grew up
honouring it."

15. Part angel warriorsPakistan 1982-83
"I think I would be happy living in a cold, bare room if I could just spend
my days borrowing into new languages.“ Raza p. 146
“Words' great forward movers” pg.154
 Fish market
 Kite flying
 Military training

16. The Speed Necessary To Replace Loss New York... Afghanistan
2001-02
 9-11 attack
 Hiroko lost everything
"You lived it, your father died in it, your fiancee died in it.
There's no shame in putting all the weight in the world
on that.“
Kim pg. 293

17. Themes Of Burnt Shadows
 War
 Tragedy and Trauma
 Unconditional Love
 Identity Crisis
 Religious Fact
 Cultural Fact
 Unity
 Pain of Migration

18. Symbols
 War
 Title
 Hiroko's character
 Migration
 Scars

19. Feminism In Burnt Shadows
 How a woman views life and situations
 Sentiments of pity, sympathy and horror
 Picture of colonizers
"Hiroko refused to back away from Konrad when her world turned hin
into an enemy“ Pg. 350
"She glides her head over her shoulder, touches flesh where there should
be silk.“ Pg. 26
"I don't want to hide these burns on my back but I don't want people to
judge me by them either“ Pg. 100

20. Post Colonialism
 Metropolitanism
 Hybridity
 Other
 Nativism
 Diaspora & Unhomliness