The Good Muslim
Tahmima Anam
“She had witnessed the birth of so many of these beings, held their hands as they left their sea-scapes and came ashore, but she had never allowed herself the thought that it might someday be hers”
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What does it mean to be a good daughter, sister, friend and citizen - and a good Muslim?
One of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.
After years away from her family, Maya Haque is on the journey home to Dhaka. But what if, as Maya discovers, everything you once knew has changed beyond recognition? What if you must re-learn what it means to be a good daughter? And how do you begin to understand a brother who has taken a path so different from your own? Maya faces these questions and many more in The Good Muslim, an extraordinary novel about faith, family and the long shadow of war.
“The narrative shimmers with poetry. Anam seems to be a novelist not so much luxuriating in the act of writing as in total control of it, using just the right words to create her stunning story”
independent
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“Powerful and ambitious, The Good Muslim more than fulfils the promises of Tahmima Anam’s celebrated debut, A Golden Age”
guardian
“An exceptional and searching look at the horrors of war”
metro
“A lyrical, thought-provoking, powerful meditation on belief, love and loyalty”
easy Living
“A major new talent”
observer
Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was selected as a Granta Best of Young British Novelist 2013. Her first novel, A Golden Age, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Costa First Novel Award in 2007, and was the winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Her second novel, The Good Muslim, was shortlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was also longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2011. She lives in London.