Tahmima Anam
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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.
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.