Tahmima Anam
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Tahmima Anam’s first novel, A Golden Age, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and went on to be translated into 27 languages. It was followed by The Good Muslim and The Bones of Grace. She is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and has been named one of Granta’s best young British novelists. She was a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and was recently elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she attended Mount Holyoke College and Harvard University and now lives in London, where she is on the board of ROLI, a music tech company founded by her husband.
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The Bones of Grace
The highly acclaimed romantic tragedy of love, migration, and the search for identity from the Granta ‘Best of Young British’ author
‘I have a complicated relationship with Bangladesh…’
Claire Armitstead
Guardian
“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”
“It could have been a smile, or it could have been a grimace. And the tickle in her throat could have been a chuckle or it could have been tears. It was mixed up: sad; funny; unfunny”
“I’ve only ever been a hair away from being utterly alone in the world”
Watch The Garden of Readin’s review of The Bones of Grace
What advice would you offer to aspiring writers? – Mumsnet. ‘Read obsessively. There is no better training for writing than reading.’ – Tahmima
Read Tahmima's interview with Mumsnet
Mumsnet
A beautiful trailer for The Bones of Grace by Tahmima Anam.