Tahmima Anam
Freedom, family and faith
Tahmima Anam’s aptly titled new novel, The Good Muslim, was launched on the eve of Ramadan at Olive Bar & Kitchen in New Delhi, against the stunning backdrop of the Qutub Minar. In conversation with literary columnist Nilanjana Rao, Anam, a Bangladeshi writer, spoke of war, family and fanaticism.
The Good Muslim follows the success of Aman’s first novel, The Golden Age, and is the second part of a trilogy. I read The Golden Age over four years ago and remember getting entwined in the lives of the Haque family.
Bangladesh’s growing pangs erupt in The Good Muslim
It’s been four years since Dhaka-born Tahmima Anam wrote her first book, A Golden Age, about the liberation and formation of Bangladesh through the story of a small middle-class family.
Her second novel, The Good Muslim, documents the rise of religious fundamentalism and the stark reality of Bangladesh in late 1970s and early 1980s under military dictatorship.
