Présentation de l'éditeur
'Anwar told me that it wasn't until he almost died that he realised he needed to find the woman he had once loved. I've thought about that a lot in the last few years, that if Anwar hadn't worked on that building site, he might never have gone looking for Megna, and if he hadn't done that, I might still be in the dark about my past. I've only ever been a hair away from being utterly alone in the world, Elijah, and it was Anwar who shone a light where once there was only darkness.'
The Bones of Grace.
It is the story of Zubaida, and her search for herself.
It is a story she tells for Elijah, the love of her life.
It tells the story of Anwar, the link in Zubaida's broken chain.
Woven within these tales are the stories of a whale and a ship; a piano and a lost boy.
This is the story of love itself.
Revue de presse
"A major new talent" (
Observer)
"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)
"Anam's prose is glowing and graceful" (
Guardian)
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Praise 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)
"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)
"Powerful and ambitious,
The Good Muslim more than fulfils the promises of Tahmima Anam's celebrated debut,
A Golden Age" (
Guardian)
"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" (
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)
"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)
"Tahmima Anam's unflinching examination of the agonies of post-colonial nation-building sets the intimacy of personal life against a backdrop of national and religious conflict. Delicate, heart-wrenching and poetic, this is a novel of great poise and power" (Tash Aw, author of THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY and MAP OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD)
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Praise for 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)
"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)
"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)
"A Bengali
Suite Française" (Jonathan Freedland
Newsnight Review on A Golden Age) --Observer
"An important novel" (
Observer) --Observer
"Love and estrangement, science and tradition, discovery and loss - with majesty, brilliant metaphor and unerring precision, Tahmima Anam explores the essential dichotomies of our present and past" (Manil Suri
author of THE DEATH OF VISHNU) --Manil Suri
Biographie de l'auteur
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