![]() ![]() While Jacob is uncomfortable with the houseguest, Ilse charitably wants to take Hiroko in. Hiroko visits the city knowing that Konrad’s sister, Ilse, lives there with her British husband, Jacob Burton, during the British occupation of India. The second section of the book takes place in Delhi, India, in 1947. However, Weiss is almost immediately killed by the blast, as he does not make his way to a shelter quickly enough. A German man named Konrad Weiss proposes to Hiroko Tanaka, a young woman he had met as a translator, and she accepts. The first of the four major sections, titled “The Yet Unknowing World” takes place in Nagasaki, Japan, on the day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. In the beginning of the book, a one-page prologue, a man sits naked in a jail cell and wonders how his life has taken him to that point. ![]() Paperback.īurnt Shadows is a historical novel that takes place across four dramatically different generations and locations in the 20th century. The following edition of this book was used to write this study guide: Shamsie, Kamila. ![]()
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