The paperback edition of the novel shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009. Sweeping in scope and evocative of time and place, this crosses generations, cultures and continents, in a style similar to Khaled Hosseini's }The Kite Runner{. In 1945, Hiroko loses everything in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Years later, she's travelled to Delhi, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11.