New Book: Tahmima Anam's "A Golden Age: A Novel"

[Amardeep Singh]

Hi folks, there is a new book by a Bangladeshi novelist out -- looks
interesting.

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From: Sree Sreenivasan <ss...@columbia.edu>
Date: Jan 17, 2008 12:24 AM
Subject: BOOKS: Tahmima Anam's "A Golden Age: A Novel"
To: sa...@columbia.edu

From SAJAforum, the newsy SAJA blog - new desi stuff daily:
http://www.sajaforum.org

Tahmima Anam is one of the few Bangladeshi writers to get a big U.S. debut
novel. "A Golden Age" has been recently published to rave reviews in America
and the U.K. (she's one of five finalists for the Guardian First Book Award).
Here's an excerpt from a profile about her by Salil Tripathi in Tehelka:
>>>
While there have been three novels on the Bangladesh war written from an
Indian perspective - Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Amitav Ghosh's The
Shadow Lines, and Rohinton Mistry's Such A Long Journey - where is the
Bangladeshi voice that articulates the horrendous agony of that war, and the
bittersweet ecstasy of that freedom?
Make way for Tahmima Anam, then. The remarkable thing about Anam's novel, A
Golden Age, which is set to be a trilogy on the Bengal century, is that she was
born four years after Bangladesh's independence. Anam comes from a politically
active family - her father edits the Daily Star, and her mother runs a human
rights NGO in Dhaka. As part of her PhD thesis in Harvard University's
anthropology department, she interviewed hundreds of people who had lived
through the war — as soldiers, survivors, victims - to piece together an
engrossing narrative that tells, for the first time to an international
audience, how Bangladesh saw that tragic year.
<<<
She is in the midst of a U.S. tour (details below) - including a reading
tonight in NYC.

See more about the book, get the publicist's contacts and post your comments at
http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/01/books-tahmima-a.html

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 NEW YORK
McNally Robinson Bookstore
@ 7:00 pm, 52 Prince Street

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22 SEATTLE
Elliot Bay Book Company
@ 7:00 pm, 1119 8th Avenue, Town Hall

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23 SAN FRANCISCO
Books Inc.
@ 7:30 pm, 301 Castro St.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24 SAN FRANCISCO
Book Passage
@ 1:00 pm, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.

Reader's Books (Sonoma)
@ 7:30 pm, 127 E. Napa Street

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5 MASSACHUSETTS
Odyssey Bookshop
@ 7:00 pm, 9 College Street, The Village Commons

[ See dozens of items in SAJAforum's BOOKS category:
http://www.sajaforum.org/books ]

--
Amardeep Singh
amar...@gmail.com
www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/blog.html

[Dr. Pradyumna Chauhan]

Amardeep,

Thanks for keeping us in the loop.

Pradyumna
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people who had lived through the war - as soldiers, survivors, victims - to

[Prabhjot Parmar]

Hello All,

Effective immediately, please change my email address from           ppa...@uwo.ca   
  to
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Thank you.
Best wishes,

prabhjot

[Dr. Pradyumna Chauhan]

Dear Prabhjot,

 

    The change in your e-mail address is noted. So you are ensconced at Royal Halloway!

 

    All the best.

 

    Pradyumna Chauhan

    Professor of English

    Arcadia University

    Glenside, PA 19038-3295

    (215) 572-5725

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