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See moreIn a remote Bangladeshi village, a telegram brings life-changing news to Maya Haque's door. Eight years before, a brutal war tore Maya's country and her family apart. Now it is time to return home. She arrives to find that everything has changed. Her beloved brother, Sohail, has abandoned his liberal beliefs to become a strict religious leader.
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One hot afternoon in a remote Bangladeshi village, a telegram brings life-changing news to Maya Haque's door. Eight years before, a brutal war tore Maya's country and her family apart. Now Maya realises it is time to return home at last. She arrives to find that everything has changed.
Her old friends have been seduced by the lure of new money, her city streets have been renamed, and the freedom she had once yearned for is a long-forgotten dream. Worst of all, her beloved brother, Sohail, has become a stranger to her, abandoning his liberal beliefs to become a strict religious leader.
As she attempts to come to grips with her brother's radicalism, Maya will be forced to rethink what it means to be a good daughter, sister, friend and citizen, and a good Muslim.
Set in the dusty streets of Dhaka and the villages and river-islands of rural Bangladesh, at a time when the rise of religious fundamentalism was a whisper in the wind, The Good Muslim is an epic, unforgettable story of the challenges of peace in the long shadow of war.
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The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam captures the challenges faced by a nascent nation through an unforgettable narrative. It intertwines themes of compassion, grief, and anger, offering a powerful and delicate exploration. The novel is praised for its poetic and heart-wrenching storytelling.
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ISBN: 9781921758287
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 May 2011
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Edition: New edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 304
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Tahmima Anam's first novel A Golden Age won the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book Award.
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