A Golden Age
by:
Tahmima Anam (author)
Rehana Haque, a young widow, blissfully prepares for the party she will host for her son and daughter. But this is 1971 in East Pakistan, and change is in the air.Set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh War of Independence, A Golden Age is a story of passion and revolution; of hope, faith, and...
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Rehana Haque, a young widow, blissfully prepares for the party she will host for her son and daughter. But this is 1971 in East Pakistan, and change is in the air.Set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh War of Independence, A Golden Age is a story of passion and revolution; of hope, faith, and unexpected heroism in the midst of chaos—and of one woman's heartbreaking struggle to keep her family safe.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061478758 (006147875X)
Publish date: January 6th 2009
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Family,
India,
Asia,
Pakistan,
Bangladesh
All in all, this book was just okay-to-good. It tells the story of an apolitical widow who is caught up in the 1971 Bangledesh War of Independence, and of her reluctant contributions as her son and daughter join the resistance. And it really is her story, as the author shows us her grief and fear an...
I have to give a special shout out thank you to my GR friend Jalilah because if she had invited me to join the Middle Eastern reading group, I wouldn’t have read this wonderful book. The novel follows Reena who lives in what today is Bangladesh. When the book opens Reena has just lo...
I...don't know how I feel about this story.On one hand, it's a soft, quiet story of rebellion and perseverance and change while every day life is going on. On the other, it's cloying and too foreign for my brain - not because it takes place in Bangladesh or because it's about a rebellion I know litt...
Rather than depicting the events of Bangladesh independence, i.e. the split between East and West Pakistan in 1971, the central theme is a mother’s efforts to save her children. There is too little history. On the other hand, I just finished another book concerning how war wreaks havoc in people’s l...
I visited Bangladesh over twenty years ago, when my mother lived there for several years. From all that we see of it in the news over here in Canada, you would think the country is in a perpetual state of flood/disaster/famine. So the first thing I thought on arrival was how colourful it was. Blu...
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