Books Review

Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie

 One of the best reads that was shortlisted for The “Orange Prize”.

  • This book takes the reader to a confounding journey from Nagasaki, Germany (depiction of World War II) to Karachi to Peshawar, Pakistan and Afghanistan via mesmerizing and then fiery streets of Delhi, India.
  • Its shows how the souls were going through phase transitions of their lives:
    • the way their loved ones departed
    • how they found new families 
    • their recovery from great loss

and there is much more to talk about that you can find in this evocative book.



The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Its the No.1 International Bestseller. 

  • Its a story of a girl who was abandoned by her family to save her life.
  • She was as innocent as a lamb, she never knew what threats she has, what cost she has paid or she is paying for living a life.
  • When she became a grown up the tightened knots of her childhood memories started to open gradually. 
  • From the beginning of her first misdeed of stealing a book buried in depths of snow in a graveyard to the end of her last thieving of a book from Mayor’s house where she got adopted, this book is full of delighting and breathtaking events at the same time.
  • It is narrated by a soul picker who expresses in chunks about what he feels when he picks up souls from dead ones, crowd of souls over his lonely shoulders and when he has to see beauty and ugliness at the same time.

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