by Tahmima Anam · Canongate Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781847679758
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«The Good Muslim» is the fiction novel by Tahmima Anam, published by Canongate Books in paperback (304 pages, in English).
One hot afternoon in a remote Bangladeshi village, Maya Haque receives a telegram calling her home after eight years. War has fractured her family, and on her return Maya discovers that nothing is as she left it. She must relearn what it means to be a good daughter and understand a brother who has taken a very different path. A story about faith, family, and the long shadow of war.
Second installment of Tahmima Anam's Bangla Desh trilogy. Nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; the cover presents it as the work of one of the best young British novelists according to Granta (2013).
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction interested in stories about Bangladesh, family, and the legacy of war.
Tahmima Anam is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist and columnist. Her first novel, A Golden Age (2007), was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. Her follow-up novel, The Good Muslim, was nominated for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. She is the granddaughter of Abul Mansur Ahmed and daughter of Mahfuz Anam.
