The ties that have bound them together over decades and generations are tested to the extreme, with unforeseeable consequences. But the shadows of history – personal, political – are cast over the entwined worlds of the Burtons, Ashrafs and the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York, and in the novel’s astonishing climax, to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9 11. As the years unravel, new homes replace those left behind and old wars are seamlessly usurped by new conflicts. There she walks into the lives of Konrad’s half-sister, Elizabeth, her husband James Burton, and their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to learn Urdu. In search of new beginnings, she travels to Delhi two years later. In the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In the next, it explodes with the sound of fire and the horror of realisation. In a split second, the world turns white.
Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. How did it come to this? he wonders August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay.
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