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The Strand is a daily 18 minute programme highlighting the best of what's going in the arts. Wide-ranging and with eclectic interests, The Strand reflects the artistic response to the BBC's news agenda. Presented by Harriett Gilbert and friends, it features discussions, reviews, big-name interviews and location reports as well as live studio performances and Hollywood, Bollywood gossip.

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The Strand Archive: Monday 08 November 2010

Monday 08 November 2010

BBC World Service - The Strand Archive, Monday 08 November 2010

Kamila Shamsie discusses her novel Burnt Shadows in an edited version of World Book Club

Kamila Shamsie discusses her novel Burnt Shadows in an edited version of World Book Club.

Harriett Gilbert and an audience at the Drill Hall Theatre in Central London talk to bestselling Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie about her internationally acclaimed novel Burnt Shadows. 

Spanning much of the 20th Century and into the 21st, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties honoured and betrayed, and loves lost and found. 

In the devastating aftermath of the second atomic bomb, Hiroko Tanaka leaves Japan in search of new beginnings. 

From Delhi, amid India's cry for independence from British colonial rule, to New York City in the uncertain wake of 9/11, to the novel's nail-biting climax in Afghanistan, a violent history casts its shadow over the entire world over.

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