Ruby Ramblings

“She didn’t know how to behave around these people – the rich and powerful, a number of whom had asked her about the samurai way of life and thought she was being charmingly self-effacing when she said the closest she had come to the warrior world was her days as a worker at the munitions factory. Two years after the war they could accept an ally of Hitler sooner than they could accept someone of a different class, she thought, and wished she had entered India in a manner that would have allowed her into the houses of those that lived in Delhi’s equivalent of Urakami.”

– Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie

Sounds like a good book. Is the author part Indian and part Japanese, from the name??

Comment by Book Bird Dog September 29, 2009 @ 4:51 pm

Those lines piqued my curiosity about the cultural context of the book (and the character). Great teaser!

Here’s mine.

Comment by Celia September 29, 2009 @ 5:09 pm

Nice teaser. I just saw a review of this book on another blog–looks good!

Comment by reviewsbylola September 29, 2009 @ 9:30 pm

What a great teaser. I don’t know much about this book so I’ll have to pay a visit to amazon.com to read up on it.

Comment by Catherine @ The Blonde Diaries September 30, 2009 @ 4:20 am