Tahmima Anam
The Good Muslim, 2011 Longlist
Photo Credit: Rolan Lamb
Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1975. She attended Mount Holyoke College and Harvard University, where she earned a PhD in Social Anthropology in 2005. Anam has been published in Granta Magazine and The New Statesman. Her debut novel, A Golden Age, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Award for Best First Book and was shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award and the Costa First Novel Award. She lives in London.
Set in the dusty streets of Dhaka and the villages and river-islands of rural Bangladesh, at a time when the rise of religious fundamentalism was a whisper in the wind, The Good Muslim is an epic, unforgettable story of the challenges of peace in the long shadow of war. It is a novel that cleaves to the simple truths that shape all of our lives: that the bonds of family and love often strain to bear the weight of history.
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