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Prologue to "Veiled Birds," Chapter 6
· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Shamsie, Kamila. Burnt Shadows. Picador, 2009. Paperback.
· The Prologue describes a man who has been taken to a cell and forced to strip off his clothes.
· He suspects that he will have to wear an orange jumpsuit when he is dressed again.
· He wonders how it came to this.
· In “The Yet Unknowing World,” it is August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki.
· Konrad Weiss, a German expatriate, had fallen in love with Hiroko Tanaka.
· They met when Hiroko was recommended as a translator for him.
· After Germany surrendered, Konrad came under suspicion by the Japanese military police.
· He keeps his journals hung in a tree in a vacant lot because they could be used as evidence of treason.
· Hiroko’s father is a rebellious artist who was imprisoned for over two weeks.
· Because of...
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