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The Good Muslim
Tahmima Anam
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Description for The Good Muslim
Paperback. What does it mean to be a good daughter, sister, friend and citizen - and a good Muslim? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847679758
SKU
V9781847679758
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About Tahmima Anam
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.
Reviews for The Good Muslim
The narrative shimmers with poetry. Anam seems to be a novelist not so much luxuriating in the act of writing as in total control of it, using just the right words to create her stunning story
Independent
Powerful and ambitious, The Good Muslim more than fulfils the promises of Tahmima Anam's celebrated debut, A Golden Age
Guardian
An exceptional and searching look at the horrors of war
Metro
A lyrical, thought-provoking, powerful meditation on belief, love and loyalty
Easy Living
A major new talent
Observer
A fascinating, intense and complex book
The Lady
Provides some penetrating meditations on faith, war, linguistic and class hegemony, parenthood, sibling rivalry and love. One looks forward to the third volume of the trilogy.
Claire Chambers
Times Literary Supplement
Impressive . . . Anam subtly handles the clash of opposing values to produce a powerful exploration of what it means to be radicalised as well as a moving depiction of the legacy of war. The Good Muslim more than confirms the promise apparent in her Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning debut
Financial Times
In this book of searing beauty, Tahmima Anam shows us a family searching for ways to navigate through the aftermath of war; in the process she takes us on an unforgettable journey through a young nation trying to define itself
Kamila Shamsie, author of BURNT SHADOWS What a superb novel. Its delicacy and power and breadth
the way its compassion and grief keep complicating its anger
I read it with heart in mouth
Helen Garner, author of THE SPARE ROOM
Independent
Powerful and ambitious, The Good Muslim more than fulfils the promises of Tahmima Anam's celebrated debut, A Golden Age
Guardian
An exceptional and searching look at the horrors of war
Metro
A lyrical, thought-provoking, powerful meditation on belief, love and loyalty
Easy Living
A major new talent
Observer
A fascinating, intense and complex book
The Lady
Provides some penetrating meditations on faith, war, linguistic and class hegemony, parenthood, sibling rivalry and love. One looks forward to the third volume of the trilogy.
Claire Chambers
Times Literary Supplement
Impressive . . . Anam subtly handles the clash of opposing values to produce a powerful exploration of what it means to be radicalised as well as a moving depiction of the legacy of war. The Good Muslim more than confirms the promise apparent in her Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning debut
Financial Times
In this book of searing beauty, Tahmima Anam shows us a family searching for ways to navigate through the aftermath of war; in the process she takes us on an unforgettable journey through a young nation trying to define itself
Kamila Shamsie, author of BURNT SHADOWS What a superb novel. Its delicacy and power and breadth
the way its compassion and grief keep complicating its anger
I read it with heart in mouth
Helen Garner, author of THE SPARE ROOM