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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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