Tahmima Anam





Tahmima Anam

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January 01, 1975 in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1975. She was raised in Paris, New York City, and Bangkok.

After studying at Mount Holyoke College and Harvard University, she earned a PhD in Social Anthropology.

Her first novel, A Golden Age, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Costa First Novel Prize, and was the winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. It was translated into 22 languages.

Her writing has been published in Granta, The New York Times, and the Guardian.

She lives in London.


Average rating: 3.70 · 1,052 ratings · 294 reviews · 3 distinct works
A Golden Age
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 820 ratings — published 2007 — 20 editions
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The Good Muslim
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008
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“Her hands on the harmonium were delicate, square-tipped, her bitten-down nails paying homage to the seriousness of the task; her brows were knitted together in the service of the song, and in the end it was only to the music that she was bound. In singing she was, in only briefly, a supplicant, as though in the presence of a divinity that even she, devout non-believer, had to somehow acknowledge”
Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age

“Rehana regarded the saris and tried to recall the feeling they had given her, of being at once enveloped and set free, the tight revolutions of material around her hips and legs limiting movement, the empty space between blouse and petticoat permitting unexpected sensations -- the thrill of a breeze that has strayed low, through an open window, the knowledge of heat in strange places, the back, the exposed belly. It was the bringing together of night and day....”
Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age

“Before placing her in her mother's arms, she whispered, as she had at all the other births, hello, little amphibian. Someone had to acknowledge the strangeness of this soul, and the distance it had traversed, millions and millions of years, in order to be here.”
Tahmima Anam, The Good Muslim

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