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Harper
August 2011
On Sale: August 2, 2011
304 pages
ISBN: 0061478768
EAN: 9780061478765
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Fiction Family Life
From prizewinning Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam comes
her deeply moving second novel about the rise of Islamic
radicalism in Bangladesh, seen through the intimate lens of
a family. Pankaj Mishra praised A Golden Age, Tahmima Anam's debut
novel, as a "startlingly accomplished and gripping novel
that describes not only the tumult of a great historical
event . . . but also the small but heroic struggles of
individuals living in the shadow of revolution and war." In
her new novel, The Good Muslim, Anam again deftly weaves the
personal and the political, evoking with great skill and
urgency the lasting ravages of war and the competing
loyalties of love and belief. In the dying days of a brutal civil war, Sohail Haque
stumbles upon an abandoned building. Inside he finds a young
woman whose story will haunt him for a lifetime to come. . .
. Almost a decade later, Sohail's sister, Maya, returns home
after a long absence to find her beloved brother
transformed. While Maya has stuck to her revolutionary
ideals, Sohail has shunned his old life to become a
charismatic religious leader. And when Sohail decides to
send his son to a madrasa, the conflict between brother and
sister comes to a devastating climax. Set in Bangladesh at a
time when religious fundamentalism is on the rise, The Good
Muslim is an epic story about faith, family, and the long
shadow of war.
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