The Good Muslim
Published on 19. May 2011
304 pages
978-0-85786-067-5 (ISBN)
Description
One of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.
After years away from her family, Maya Haque is on the journey home to Dhaka. But what if, as Maya discovers, everything you once knew has changed beyond recognition? What if you must re-learn what it means to be a good daughter? And how do you begin to understand a brother who has taken a path so different from your own? Maya faces these questions and many more in The Good Muslim, an extraordinary novel about faith, family and the long shadow of war.
After years away from her family, Maya Haque is on the journey home to Dhaka. But what if, as Maya discovers, everything you once knew has changed beyond recognition? What if you must re-learn what it means to be a good daughter? And how do you begin to understand a brother who has taken a path so different from your own? Maya faces these questions and many more in The Good Muslim, an extraordinary novel about faith, family and the long shadow of war.
Reviews / Votes
A major new talent * * Observer * * Anam has done a service to her country ... No other writer has treated the subject with such clarity before, in English. * * Times Literary Supplement on A Golden Age * * In this striking debut novel ... Anam deftly weaves the personal and the political, giving the terrors of war spare, powerful treatment. * * The New Yorker on A Golden Age * * An assured, moving read * * The Times on A Golden Age * * Beautifully told, intimate and touching; Anam has a knack for making you care so desperately for her characters that you admire their failings as much as their strengths. * * Daily Mail on A Golden Age * * Anam's prose is glowing and graceful throughout; whether detailing the degradations of a refugee camp, the tenderness of an unexpected love affair, or the exhilarated dread of a nation in cataclysm. * * Guardian on A Golden Age * * This is storytelling at its best ... A beautiful story of hope, heroism and human survival amid cruelty. Everyone should read this and learn. * * Daily Express on A Golden Age * * Tahmima Anam's startlingly accomplished and gripping novel describes not only the tumult of a great historical event... but also the small but heroic struggles of individuals living in the shadow of revolution and war. -- Pankaj Mishra on A Golden Age The authenticity shines through Anam's beautiful, simple prose. * * Harper's Bazaar * * My reader adored this and was happy to compare it with The God of Small Things and Brick Lane. * * Bookseller on A Golden Age * *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
2,04 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85786-067-5 (9780857860675)
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Tahmima Anam
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Book
05/2011
Canongate Books
€41.07
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Person
Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was selected as a Granta Best of Young British Novelist 2013. Her first novel, A Golden Age, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Costa First Novel Award in 2007, and was the winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. Her second novel, The Good Muslim, was shortlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was also longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2011. She lives in London.
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- Prologue
- Book One
- Book Two
- Book Three
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- The Bones of Grace: Preview
