A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam

A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam

Spellbinding . . . . Anam has written a story about powerful events. But it is her descriptions of the small, unheralded moments . . . that truly touch the heart. --San Francisco Chronicle

Tahmima Anam's deeply moving debut novel about a mother's all-consuming love for her two children, set against the backdrop of war and terror, has led critics to comparisons with The English Patient and A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Rehana Haque, a young widow transplanted to the city of Dhaka in East Pakistan, is fiercely devoted to her adolescent children, Maya and Sohail. Both become fervent nationalists in the violent political turmoil which, in 1971, transforms a brutal Pakistani civil war into a fight to the death for Bangladeshi independence. Fair-minded and intensely protective of her family, but not at all political, Rehana is sucked into the conflict in spite of herself.

A story of passion and revolution, of family, friendship and unexpected heroism, A Golden Age depicts the chaos of an era and the choices everyone--from student protesters to the country's leaders, and rickshaw wallahs to the army's soldiers--must make. Rehana herself will face a cruel dilemma; the choice she makes is at once heartbreaking and true to the character we have come to love and respect.

Anam, Tahmima: - Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in Paris, Bangkok, and New York. She attended Mount Holyoke College and received a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University. She is the author of the Bengal Trilogy of novels--A Golden Age, The Good Muslim, and The Bones of Grace - which chronicles three generations of the Haque family, from the Bangladesh war of independence to the present day. A Golden Age was awarded the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. In 2013, she was named one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists. She writes often for The Guardian, Financial Times, Granta, and other publications, including the International New York Times, where she is a contributing opinion writer.

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ISBN 13	9780061478741
ISBN 10	0061478741
Title	A Golden Age
Author	Tahmima Anam
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2008-01-08
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Short-listed for Costa Book Awards (First Novel) 2007, Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2007
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