Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1975. She attended Mount Holyoke College, and received a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University. The Good Muslim is the second novel, following A Golden Age, in her Bengal Trilogy. She lives in London.
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Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1975. She attended Mount Holyoke College, and received a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University. The Good Muslim is the second novel, following A Golden Age, in her Bengal Trilogy. She lives in London.
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Birth date: January 01, 1975
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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...
A special thank you to Edelweiss and HarperCollins for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. This was simply a beautiful read. Each sentence ebbs and flows in a lyrical nature and Anam executes her conversational narrative perfectly. I felt privileged reading this book, Anam trusts her readers wi...
Zubaida has made a mess of her life. Part of it is not her fault. The larger part of the miss, however, is very much her fault. In Tahmina Anam’s The Bones of Grace, we hear Zubaida explain what really happened to her lost love, Elijah, from a point several years after everything fell apart. Along t...
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...
Not perfect but close, more thought provoking than thought providing it's 50 opinion pieces with other scattered snippets, quotes and some cartoons about feminism, some of them explore the elephant in the corner of 50 Shades of Grey but many of them just talk about their experience of feminism and w...
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