A Golden Age
by Tahmima Anam
Dhaka, 1971. A mother hides freedom fighters in her garden.
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Dhaka, 1971. Rehana Haque is a widow trying to hold her family together as Bangladesh fights its war of independence from Pakistan — a war in which the Pakistani military committed systematic atrocities against the Bengali population, including mass rape as a weapon of war. Anam writes from inside the domestic experience of that war — a mother hiding liberation fighters in her garden, her children making choices she can't control, the specific texture of Dhaka under occupation. The most important Bangladesh novel in English and the one that puts human faces on one of the 20th century's least-known genocides.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Bangladesh • South Asia
- Voice
- Written by a Bangladeshi author
- Themes
- motherhoodwar and family
Same event, different angle
The same history — told by someone who saw it differently.
Same pattern, different era
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