The Good Muslim has ratings and reviews. Pankaj Mishra praised A Golden Age, Tahmima Anam’s debut novel, as a “startlingly accomplished and. In “A Golden Age,”Tahmima Anam chronicled Bangladesh’s war for independence through the story of Rehana Haque, a widow drawn. Delicate, heart-wrenching and poetic, this is a novel ofgreat poise and power.” — Tash Aw, author of The Harmony Silk Factory Set in Bangladesh at a ti.
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Other Titles by Tahmima Anam. Eventually, when you read the book, you will miss the older Sohail and won’t even like the new version of Sohail, but at the end of the book, you will embrace him more warmly than Maya. Martial law is in effect, war criminals still have not been prosecu A Golden Age introduced the widow Rehana Haque and her two teenagers, Sohail and Maya, as they participated in the Bangladesh War of Independence.
Maya can be wilfully blind and definitely selfish, but she’s familiar and relatable because of her independent and modern she is, especially in comparison to many other characters.
Oct snam, Rifat rated it it was ok. Jun 12, Shreya Vaid rated it really liked it. Sohail felt the need to atone for his part in the war by gradually falling into an extreme practice of Islam. I hope they will read it with objectivity, and not forget that the story is anzm. Separated during the war, Maya met her brother, Sohail a decade after the war. Pages to import images to Wikidata.
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I hate when that happens. She tends her cancer-ridden mother. Maya misses their former closeness, but compensates by getting to know her young nephew Zaid for the first time.
Told against two alternating timelines – one immediately after liberation, and the other years later – this is Maya’s story. Sadly, like many sequels, it just isn’t as good as its predecessor. But, set in Bangladesh in two alternating time periods,just after the war of independence and 12 years later in when political disillusionment had set in, the novel does not only depict the conflicts that beset Maya in the early days of feminism in a traditional culture. Worst of all, her beloved brother, Sohail, has become a stranger to her, abandoning his liberal beliefs to become a strict religious leader.
If he were to tell his sister about the war, this is what he would have to tell her.
Revolution And The Question Of ‘The Good Muslim’
Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in This book was provided by the publisher for review purposes. As well as the inner-workings of a family, and their desperate attempt to hold fast to their faith. These are two souls who have survived the war of Independence that birthed tahmia nation of Bangladesh, and the revolution that finally has calmed down in their world.
I had no idea it was tzhmima sequel but it reads like a stand alone book.
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One looks forward to the third volume of the trilogy. To ask other readers questions about The Good Muslimplease sign up. Anam compares Bangladesh’s rebellious past to the recent Arab Spring.
The Good Muslim is beautifully written, with layers and nuances that develop the characters. Its clarity, alacrity and succession of brief, vivid scenes give the characters room to breathe. It also offers a case study of one who has turned into a fundamentalist, or allegedly so, which is significant especially at tahmmia time when the world has been witnessing a rise in fundamentalism of various hues in many countries doomed to be war zones.
The narrative is inspired from the local dialect but that is easy to comprehend with for the readers of any mother tongue. Bangladesh Islam South and Central Asia reviews.
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Maya is immediately impressive but Anam’s acuity cuts deepest in her treatment of Sohail. Her old friends have been seduced by the lure of new money, her city streets have been renamed and the freedom she had once yearned for is a long-forgotten dream. It’s tahimma to note that goor character of Rehana is based on the author’s grandmother.
I thought this was a worthy sequel to A Golden Ageshowing us the aftermath of the war. And while the focus of the novel is on the clash between secularism and faith, it also raises that critical question of how — when both sides have committed war crimes — can a country achieve justice and reconciliation in a postwar period?
But ,uslim have changed even anm in Dhaka, and with Sohail. The Good Muslim is about a national victory that does not feel like a victory, a liberation that is a damnation for many. Inside he finds a young woman whose story will haunt him for a lifetime to come. This is 2 in the Bangla Desh trilogy, and although I liked it well enough, it didn’t seem to have as much emotional impact on me as A Golden Age at least, not until a particular incident right at the end. Mangoes and ice cream. She is distressed at her brother’s continued religiosity, yet she is seduced by its promises when disease threatens her mother’s life.
I recommend this book to readers who enjoy stories that cross geographical and cultural boundaries. Tahmija had high expectations from Tahmima Anam when I very randomly came across her second book tucked away in the corners of a bookstore in the Bangladesh airport. This book really blew my tahmika.
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