#burnt shadows

[monochrome-anomaly]

there was Delhi: city of the Raj, where every Englishman's bungalow had lush gardens, lined with red flowerpots. That was the end of Sajjad's ruminations on British India. Flowerpots: it summed it all up. No trees courtyards for the English, no rooms clustered around those courtyards; instead, separations and demarcations.

- Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Burnt Shadows | Author: Kamila Shamsie | Publisher: Picador (2009)

[thepainsofyearning]

"There is a phrase I have heard in English: to leave someone alone with their grief. Urdu has no equivalent phrase. It only understands the concept of gathering around and becoming 'ghum-khaur' —grief-eaters — who take in the mourner's sorrow. Would you like me to be in English or Urdu right now?”

Burnt shadows: Kamila Shamsie

Personally i would like somebody to ask me if they want to eat my sorrow.

[pollyj]

Some of the books available on my shop!

[a-thousand-desires]

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

Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows

[universitybookstore]

If you still haven’t read young British novelist Kamila Shamsie yet, you’re missing a treat.  Her latest, Home Fire, is out now in the US from Riverhead Books.

[monochrome-anomaly]

What prompted this falling-of of love? 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, Burnt Shadows

[lez0mbie]

how i feel right after finishing Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie …

NOOO IT CANT JUST END THERE. WHAT?!

but other than that: amazing writing, amazing characters, unpredictable. so good