The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam

The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam

"Delicate, heart-wrenching and poetic, this is a novel of great poise and power." --Tash Aw, author of The Harmony Silk Factory

The Good Muslim is an epic story about faith, family, the rise of religious fundamentalism, and the long shadow of war from prize-winning Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam.

In the dying days of a brutal civil war in Bangladesh, Sohail Haque stumbles upon an abandoned building. Inside he finds a young woman whose story will haunt him for a lifetime to come.

Almost a decade later, Sohail's sister, Maya, returns home after a long absence to find her beloved brother transformed. While Maya has stuck to her revolutionary ideals, Sohail has shunned his old life to become a charismatic religious leader. And when Sohail decides to send his son to a madrasa, the conflict between brother and sister comes to a devastating climax.

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	9780061478864
ISBN 10	0061478865
Title	The Good Muslim
Author	Tahmima Anam
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2012-08-14
Number of pages	320
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