The Bones of Grace
- 2 Feb 2017
- 9781847679789
- £10.99
- 432 pp
- 128×198mm
- 25 Feb 2027
- 9781837266890
- £11.99
- 432 pp
- 129×198mm
- 19 May 2016
- 9781782112259
- £8.79
- 336 pp
In a few words
The highly acclaimed romantic tragedy of love, migration, and the search for identity from the Granta ‘Best of Young British’ author
In a few words
The highly acclaimed romantic tragedy of love, migration and the search for identity from the Granta Best of Young British Novelist
In a few words
A story of love, migration, and the search for identity
A tale of conflicted love . . . A superbly written, deeply moving modern love story
One of the most impressive novelists of her generation
A tale of conflicted love . . . A superbly written, deeply moving modern love story
One of the most impressive novelists of her generation
Anam has a knack for making you care so desperately for her characters that you admire their failings as much as their strengths
Anam's prose is glowing and graceful
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Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and the dark horrors of a ship-breaking yard. Here – deep inside a beached ocean liner, steeped in mystery and tragedy – lies the key to her story. And a lifeline to the man she loves, but whose heart she may never win back.
Echoing with loneliness and longing, The Bones of Grace is a story of lost love and conflicted identity; of the urgent need to discover who we are, before we can truly belong anywhere and truly love anyone.
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FROM THE GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST
Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and the dark horrors of a ship-breaking yard. Here – deep inside a beached ocean liner, steeped in mystery and tragedy – lies the key to her story. And a lifeline to the man she loves, but whose heart she may never win back.
Echoing with loneliness and longing, The Bones of Grace is a story of lost love and conflicted identity; of the urgent need to discover who we are, before we can truly belong anywhere and truly love anyone.
More about
the book
Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and the dark horrors of a ship-breaking yard. Here – deep inside a beached ocean liner, steeped in mystery and tragedy – lies the key to her story. And a lifeline to the man she loves, but whose heart she may never win back.
Echoing with loneliness and longing, The Bones of Grace is a story of lost love and conflicted identity; of the urgent need to discover who we are, before we can truly belong anywhere and truly love anyone.
Anam's prose is glowing and graceful
Exquisite *****
Breathtaking . . . Zubaida's journey of self-discovery [has] a real sense of scale
The Bones of Grace has at its heart not war but the shattering effects of conflicted love . . . Zubaida's choice between love and duty is reminiscent of Anna Karenina
Anam's prose is glowing and graceful
The Bones of Grace has at its heart not war but the shattering effects of conflicted love . . . Zubaida's choice between love and duty is reminiscent of Anna Karenina
Restrained and powerful
Exquisite *****
A book of searing beauty
Kamila Shamsie
Fierce and intimate, lyrical and expansive, The Bones of Grace offers what a great novel does: symphonic movements, historical landscapes that shape our private landscapes of love and life, mysteries and enchantments, the unforgettable and the unforgotten. Tahmima Anam is a mesmerizer
Yiyun Li
Tahmima Anam
View profileTahmima Anam‘s debut novel, A Golden Age, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and was winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Her follow up, The Good Muslim, was shortlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She has been published in the Guardian, the Financial Times, and is a Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times. In 2013, she was named one of Granta‘s Best of Young British Novelists. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she now lives in London.
Tahmima Anam
View profileTahmima Anam is the author of the Bengal trilogy and a recipient of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book and the O. Henry Award. Her short story ‘Garments’ was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. She is a Granta Best of Young British Novelist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she trained as an anthropologist at Harvard University and now lives in London.
Tahmima Anam
View profileTahmima Anam‘s debut novel, A Golden Age, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and was winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Her follow up, The Good Muslim, was shortlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She has been published in the Guardian, the Financial Times, and is a Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times. In 2013, she was named one of Granta‘s Best of Young British Novelists. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she now lives in London.
